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Looks like they are trying to stay ahead of incoming EU action.
by roody15 4y ago
Looks like they are trying to stay ahead of incoming EU action.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI disagree. The EU is already forcing them through the DMA and the writing was on the wall the second alternative app stores were even an option. If Google wasn't going to get Chrome into the app store, they'd get it into Google Play for iOS. Staying ahead of EU action would've involved appeasing the antitrust worries when the DMA was still taking shape. Google has done so in small ways by redesigning Android's package installer APIs to make alternative app stores more feasible. Of course there are no popular app stores outside of open source and piracy circles because there's usually little to gain in using them on Android. Amazon's app store is available as a normal download, though I don't think they've marketed that enough for it to be any kind of success.