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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 andro
by 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 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