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There are already “competing app stores” and sideloading on Android devices and even Epics attempts at bypassing Google Play was an abysmal failure.

• wiseowise 4y ago
  > abysmal failure In what way?
  • scarface74 4y ago
    Monetarily? Popularity? Can you name one app that has seen wide spread adoption that uses an alternate App Store? Epic tried with Fortnite and they came crawling back to Google Play
    • wiseowise 4y ago
      > Monetarily? For who? I as a consumer, win monetarily because I can use good OSS apps and bypass shitty first-party ones. > Popularity? Popularity is a spectrum, you know. But judging by your comments, your definition of popularity is “more popular than Play Store”, in which case it would never be like that, since play store comes preinstalled and therefore has advantage. > Can you name one app that has seen wide spread adoption that uses an alternate App Store? Tmux, NewPipe. > Epic tried with Fortnite and they came crawling back to Google Play “System is so hostile to third parties that you have to buy into monopoly”, what a good reason to lock it down even further.