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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
by 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 agoMaybe "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 agoHard 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 agoAnd that's perfectly fine. Niche users and power users deserve to be catered to as well.
- Aulig 4y ago3rd 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 agoThis isn't true anymore: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836