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Do you think that you can easily reach the same userbase with a 3rd party installation process as the official app store one?

• salawat 3y ago
  Yes. How do you think we did it in the bad ole days? Don't fall for the propensity of Big Tech to scare you away from general purpose computing. If you're capable of writing, testing, and publishing an app in the first place, you have an obligation to educate the public about just what the nature of the sacrifices are that are being made by accepting a "walled garden" status quo for computing. If you're only in it for the money, that may not matter to you I suppose. If you're dedicated to trying to bring the superpower that is general purpose computing to the public however, it's one of those bits of suffering you have to navigate for their best interest.
  • fluoridation 3y ago
    If you have to educate each potential user before you can turn it into an actual user, then necessarily your userbase is going to be smaller than if you didn't require that education step.
    • JohnFen 3y ago
      Right, but is that actually important? It might be, depending on what your goals are, but for a lot of developers who just want to make a good living off of their work (as opposed to becoming a millionaire), it's not really that important.
  • datadeft 3y ago
    I am not talking about some imaginary good old days vs now but using a 3rd party install process vs the official one in the context of installing Android applications. I think you would reach a fraction of the userbase with a 3rd party process due to several factors.