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If there were other app stores besides Apple's for iDevices, Google would require you to download the Play Store to access Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps. Once
by taffer 3y ago
If there were other app stores besides Apple's for iDevices, Google would require you to download the Play Store to access Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps. Once there's an alternative major app store where Apple's strict privacy rules don't apply, why should companies with a more relaxed privacy stance stay on Apple's store? Your Bank, Facebook, Adobe, and Amazon will likely move to the store with the lowest standards.
- hocuspocus 3y agoThat's absolutely not the case on Android, why would it be different on iOS?
- wvenable 3y agoBeing on the default store is 1000% buff. Literally your Bank, Facebook, and Amazon aren't going to just disappear off the shelves of the biggest store. On Android, Amazon actually run their own app store and they still have all their apps on the play store.
- Apocryphon 3y agoBesides all of the trouble it takes to build and run one's own store, pulling one's apps off the official App Store would be hell for discoverability and UX. And the Amazon store really only exists for the sake of Fire tablets.
- wvenable 3y agoI have a Samsung Phone, it's preloaded with Galaxy store, and they still put their own apps (even exclusive apps) in the Play store.
- paulmd 3y agonobody needs to "discover" facebook, that's the power of network effect
- Apocryphon 3y agoUshering the FB app to a Meta store would still require a migration process that would be annoying at best and arduous at worst depending on the user. See what happened to the HBO Max to Max app rebrand this year, except with the additional headache of going to a new app store entirely. That migration process is the discoverability issue, because now users would be forced to contend with yet another website, marketplace, account, etc.
- wvenable 3y agoWhen someone searches for the fictional new Facebook clone "Visagebook" in the Apple store you can bet they'll want to pay money for "Facebook" to show up somewhere in those results.