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> My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides. Andr
by greiskul 3y ago
> My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides.
Android has sideloading since forever, and this doesn't happen there. The number of users you get by the convenience of being in the main app store for the system is way bigger then from any feature you can do if you are not.
- pulvinar 3y agoAs others have pointed out, Google Play isn't as locked down as the App Store so there isn't the same incentive. But the biggest question that always gets me is why anyone who considers the Android way fine would want to change Apple? Simply stay with Android and let others be. Changing Apple makes it just another Android-- you can't have your cake and eat it too.
- waboremo 3y agoExactly, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to see yourself as a platform, you must hold yourself to higher standards as a platform. Hence, the DOJ ruling that restricting access to the platform is anti-competitive. This is also why Google is under pressure as well. This isn't just a "go to Android" situation, this is a "the entire mobile market is entirely anti-competitive due to Apple and Google being in bed with each other" one.
- pulvinar 3y agoYep, serves them right for making desirable products. Odd that I don't remember anyone calling Nokia anti-competitive when their platform had the market sewn up and Apple and Google had 0%.