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There is no alternative market on Apple. On Android there is F-Droid. Your app has to be open source to be on it though which most companies would never concede

• cherryteastain 3y ago
  Also afaik F-Droid insist on building apks directly from source, so non FOSS apps basically can never use it even if they are ok with showing the tracking they do.
  • crtasm 3y ago
    They can, but they'd need to run their own repository. F-Droid makes it easy to add other repos. https://f-droid.org/tutorials/create-repo/ https://f-droid.org/tutorials/create-repo/ https://f-droid.org/tutorials/add-repo/ https://f-droid.org/tutorials/add-repo/
  • Moldoteck 3y ago
    even if this was true, you can make the app fully oss but most of the main logic would be handled by the server
    • askiiart 3y ago
      Why are we even discussing F-Droid here? The topic at hand is whether Google has a monopoly on the Android app market, not whether anyone can put their app on F-Droid, and there are plenty of alternative app stores besides F-Droid.
      • Moldoteck 3y ago
        Why is it a monopoly? Can't you install other app store?
        • askiiart 3y ago
          Sorry if that was unclear, I meant that they don't. I'm just confused as to why we're talking about F-Droid specifically.
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• jeroenhd 3y ago
  Setting up your own F-Droid repo is quick and easy, I've done it myself. Adding the repo can be done by copying the link or scanning a QR code. I'm sure companies would prefer a platform where they can pay money to get featured on the front page which comes with their repo preloaded, but if you're a small app business, hosting an F-Droid repo for test releases and perhaps releases for non-Google phones, you can get rid of the auto-updater if you just point people at F-Droid.