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With the Play Store, the only times I ever see people not use the play store is when: - They're using an Amazon device - They're installing fortnite I'm not

With the Play Store, the only times I ever see people not use the play store is when: - They're using an Amazon device - They're installing fortnite I'm not so convinced that opening up the app store to competition would result in a deluge of developers forcing people to install their own store apps and sideload everything. The only reason I could imagine that happening is Apple continuing to charge extremely high rents for the privilege of using the app store, in which case the competition isn't a bad thing? I believe the much more real threat is non-technical users getting duped into installing malware through some shady third party store or sideloading scheme, but how often does this even happen on Android? I don't hear much about such schemes. I am just generally unconvinced the App Store needs to be protected from competition to be used >90% of the time on iOS.

wpm 3y ago
Facebook was extremely miffed at the required Privacy Disclosures that became required on the App Store a year or two ago, the one that lists, like a nutritional label, what data the app gathers. Facebook's looks like the ingredients list of a cheap-o, pre-wrapped donut from a gas station. Meta has already been caught abusing enterprise provisioning profiles to get around App Store rules. Many App Store rules are not technical, that you can get around by simply crafting the API to behave a certain way. Many of them take the form of a "gentlemen's agreement" type of rule. You have to convince either the code-inspection algos or the human app reviewers you are following them before your app gets listed. Many of these rules do not exist on the Play Store. So of course Facebook is just on the Play Store, they have no motivation to leave! They've *already* attempted to break out of the guardrails on the App Store.

wpm 3y ago

Facebook was extremely miffed at the required Privacy Disclosures that became required on the App Store a year or two ago, the one that lists, like a nutritional label, what data the app gathers. Facebook's looks like the ingredients list of a cheap-o, pre-wrapped donut from a gas station. Meta has already been caught abusing enterprise provisioning profiles to get around App Store rules. Many App Store rules are not technical, that you can get around by simply crafting the API to behave a certain way. Many of them take the form of a "gentlemen's agreement" type of rule. You have to convince either the code-inspection algos or the human app reviewers you are following them before your app gets listed. Many of these rules do not exist on the Play Store. So of course Facebook is just on the Play Store, they have no motivation to leave! They've *already* attempted to break out of the guardrails on the App Store.