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App stores are front-ends for managing/buying apps/packages, e.g. winget install Netflix will install netflix from the windows store. Click on settings to en

App stores are front-ends for managing/buying apps/packages, e.g. winget install Netflix will install netflix from the windows store. Click on settings to enable new sources, e.g. join the beta channel. They are the same thing just graphical.

grishka 3y ago
Not the same thing. You can't add a custom repository in App Store or Google Play. They only ever install apps from Apple's and Google's servers. Getting your app published on those servers is obviously subject to their owners' whims. Meanwhile, you can just run brew tap grishka/grishka to add my personal repository to your homebrew configuration. Try doing that with mobile app stores. One might say that, ignoring some technical details, the functionality of package managers is a superset of the functionality of app stores.
- kuschku 3y ago
  > Try doing that with mobile app stores F-Droid?
  - grishka 3y ago
    Sigh. Mainstream mobile app stores.
    - MrDresden 3y ago
      You are conflating tools (apt, brew, pip) with stores (Play Store, Appstore, F-Droid). Android already has the ability to allow a tool to install from different sources (this is how F-droid functions, however only from their own single source).
      - iggldiggl 3y ago
        > however only from their own single source F-Droid is actually both a tool as well as a repository (which is the one that's included by default in F-Droid the tool). You can add additional repositories to F-Droid the tool.
        MrDresden 3y ago
        I honestly did not know that was possible. Thanks!
- diffeomorphism 3y ago
  > Not the same thing. You can't add a custom repository in App Store or Google Play. Exactly the point. The problem is that you are not allowed to do that (not a problem of can't). As pointed out by people in other comments, alternative app stores on android totally do have that functionality. So the problem is not app stores as such but google and apple being gatekeepers. Give me the option to add fdroid repos in google play.

grishka 3y ago

Not the same thing. You can't add a custom repository in App Store or Google Play. They only ever install apps from Apple's and Google's servers. Getting your app published on those servers is obviously subject to their owners' whims. Meanwhile, you can just run brew tap grishka/grishka to add my personal repository to your homebrew configuration. Try doing that with mobile app stores. One might say that, ignoring some technical details, the functionality of package managers is a superset of the functionality of app stores.

kuschku 3y ago
> Try doing that with mobile app stores F-Droid?
- grishka 3y ago
  Sigh. Mainstream mobile app stores.
  - MrDresden 3y ago
    You are conflating tools (apt, brew, pip) with stores (Play Store, Appstore, F-Droid). Android already has the ability to allow a tool to install from different sources (this is how F-droid functions, however only from their own single source).
    - iggldiggl 3y ago
      > however only from their own single source F-Droid is actually both a tool as well as a repository (which is the one that's included by default in F-Droid the tool). You can add additional repositories to F-Droid the tool.
      - MrDresden 3y ago
        I honestly did not know that was possible. Thanks!
diffeomorphism 3y ago
> Not the same thing. You can't add a custom repository in App Store or Google Play. Exactly the point. The problem is that you are not allowed to do that (not a problem of can't). As pointed out by people in other comments, alternative app stores on android totally do have that functionality. So the problem is not app stores as such but google and apple being gatekeepers. Give me the option to add fdroid repos in google play.