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I'm going to predict that all the stores will fail. The only one that might succeed would be a Steam store but I don't suspect Valve has any interest in being a

by gernb 4y ago

I'm going to predict that all the stores will fail. The only one that might succeed would be a Steam store but I don't suspect Valve has any interest in being a store for free to $0.99 games. But hey, it would be nice if bought some game on Steam that meant I got access to Mac/Linux/Windows/Androidn/iOS versions

smoldesu 4y ago
It's doubtful that an Open Source F-Droid style repository would fail. Apple is already setting things up to be as unprofitable as possible, but stores that don't concern themselves with turning a profit will probably work just fine.
- gernb 4y ago
  Maybe "fail" was the wrong word. What I meant to say is I suspect no store will get a large percent of the market where I define large as > 10% AFAIK, no android 3rd party store has been successful by that definition.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    Hard to say, the Play Store has been fairly lax WRT allowing third-party browser engines, Free Software and emulators. If the floodgates open on iOS, there might be considerable demand for apps that Apple has traditionally tried stopping.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    And that's perfectly fine. Niche users and power users deserve to be catered to as well.
  - Aulig 4y ago
    3rd party stores on Android are disadvantaged in some ways, e.g. no automati app updates. That makes things quite annoying for the user.
    - akvadrako 4y ago
      This isn't true anymore: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836
gnicholas 4y ago
What about browser extension stores? That is, could Kiwi or Firefox now run on mobile, with mobile extension support? I realize that Safari now offers extension support, but it is so convoluted to download and activate an extension that practically no one does it. If if it were as easy as the Chrome/Firefox stores, this would be much more common. I'm hopeful that this could finally happen!
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by gernb 4y ago

smoldesu 4y ago

It's doubtful that an Open Source F-Droid style repository would fail. Apple is already setting things up to be as unprofitable as possible, but stores that don't concern themselves with turning a profit will probably work just fine.

gernb 4y ago
Maybe "fail" was the wrong word. What I meant to say is I suspect no store will get a large percent of the market where I define large as > 10% AFAIK, no android 3rd party store has been successful by that definition.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Hard to say, the Play Store has been fairly lax WRT allowing third-party browser engines, Free Software and emulators. If the floodgates open on iOS, there might be considerable demand for apps that Apple has traditionally tried stopping.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  And that's perfectly fine. Niche users and power users deserve to be catered to as well.
- Aulig 4y ago
  3rd party stores on Android are disadvantaged in some ways, e.g. no automati app updates. That makes things quite annoying for the user.
  - akvadrako 4y ago
    This isn't true anymore: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836

gnicholas 4y ago

What about browser extension stores? That is, could Kiwi or Firefox now run on mobile, with mobile extension support? I realize that Safari now offers extension support, but it is so convoluted to download and activate an extension that practically no one does it. If if it were as easy as the Chrome/Firefox stores, this would be much more common. I'm hopeful that this could finally happen!

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