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Sorry, are you saying that winget, chocolatey, and brew are equivalent to the mobile App Store? Because for the average user, that is not remotely true. The App
by firejake308 3y ago
Sorry, are you saying that winget, chocolatey, and brew are equivalent to the mobile App Store? Because for the average user, that is not remotely true. The App Store is how you install programs on mobile by default. On desktop, however, the default installation process is to download an installer/executable from a website. Only very technically literate people (basically just software developers) will be installing things via winget, chocolatey, or brew
- thaumasiotes 3y agoSince Google is blocked in China, the default process for installing Android applications there is also to download an .apk from the internet and install it manually. It works without a hiccup on my phone running LineageOS. I haven't tried on something running stock Android. But it leads me to suspect that there isn't much standing in the way of distributing your Android apps this way outside of China, either.
- grishka 3y agoSanctioned Russian banks distribute their apps as self-updating apks. It's much, MUCH worse with iOS — Tinkoff tried publishing an innocuous-looking app that turns into their usual bank app after you open a "secret" deeplink for example. Two things are problematic, though: 1) app stores got normalized as a way to distribute apps to the point of people being afraid to sideload, and 2) the fact that you can't distribute an iOS app without Apple's permission is utterly bonkers.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Android applications there is also to download an .apk from the internet and install it manually. This is how I do it in the US whenever possible, too.
- diffeomorphism 3y ago> Sorry, are you saying that No.
- Testers20 3y ago[flagged]