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It works totally perfect, just go to the garbage dump that is android store and compare.

idle_zealot 3y ago
Speaking as someone who regularly uses both iOS and Android (Pixel) phones: The App store and Play store are indistinguishable in terms of app quality. Both are absolutely filled with garbage, and the only way to find anything worthwhile is to search off-platform, then punch your desired app name into the store's search.
- Alupis 3y ago
  Not to mention the Play Store requires $25 per listed app - removing the "anti-spam" argument some are making. The issue is paying $99 to even be allowed to think about making an app - plus the arbitrary requirement it must be built using a Mac. Not all apps are commercial, and not all apps generate revenue, and not all apps are even on the App Store! It's just an absurd requirement. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?
  - lapcat 3y ago
    > Not to mention the Play Store requires $25 per listed app This is also false: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6112435 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/112622 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... I say "also" because you were also wrong about the Apple Developer Program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235313
    - Alupis 3y ago
      Getting nit picky I see. Yes, it does appear I was incorrect about it being a per app fee, which makes this model even better than I had realized.
      - lapcat 3y ago
        > Getting nit picky I see. How is it nit picky when you were using the nonexistent $25 listing fee as part of an argument? "$25 per listed app - removing the "anti-spam" argument some are making."
  - nicky0 3y ago
    £99 just gets it ability to submit apps to the store. You can still use the developer tools and develop an app for free.
- alpaca128 3y ago
  > punch your desired app name into the store's search. And in the case of Android you might not get the app in the search results because Google decided your phone is not compatible, in which case the Play Store will pretend the app doesn't exist. To this day I don't understand this stupid design, it confuses the hell out of users who don't know this obscure detail, sometimes even misleads them by installing another app that showed up instead of the correct one.

Speaking as someone who regularly uses both iOS and Android (Pixel) phones: The App store and Play store are indistinguishable in terms of app quality. Both are absolutely filled with garbage, and the only way to find anything worthwhile is to search off-platform, then punch your desired app name into the store's search.

Alupis 3y ago
Not to mention the Play Store requires $25 per listed app - removing the "anti-spam" argument some are making. The issue is paying $99 to even be allowed to think about making an app - plus the arbitrary requirement it must be built using a Mac. Not all apps are commercial, and not all apps generate revenue, and not all apps are even on the App Store! It's just an absurd requirement. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?
- lapcat 3y ago
  > Not to mention the Play Store requires $25 per listed app This is also false: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6112435 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/112622 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... I say "also" because you were also wrong about the Apple Developer Program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235313
  - Alupis 3y ago
    Getting nit picky I see. Yes, it does appear I was incorrect about it being a per app fee, which makes this model even better than I had realized.
    - lapcat 3y ago
      > Getting nit picky I see. How is it nit picky when you were using the nonexistent $25 listing fee as part of an argument? "$25 per listed app - removing the "anti-spam" argument some are making."
- nicky0 3y ago
  £99 just gets it ability to submit apps to the store. You can still use the developer tools and develop an app for free.
alpaca128 3y ago
> punch your desired app name into the store's search. And in the case of Android you might not get the app in the search results because Google decided your phone is not compatible, in which case the Play Store will pretend the app doesn't exist. To this day I don't understand this stupid design, it confuses the hell out of users who don't know this obscure detail, sometimes even misleads them by installing another app that showed up instead of the correct one.