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Android is the more closer to iOS example though. They have alt store and you can also download app through chrome, yet most users only use Google's play store.
by YetAnotherNick 2y ago
Android is the more closer to iOS example though. They have alt store and you can also download app through chrome, yet most users only use Google's play store.
- wongarsu 2y ago* Most users only use Google's play store, except for apps not available there Certain categories of apps aren't deemed acceptable by Google (e.g. apps with adult content, apps that circumvent copyright, some "hacking" apps, etc). If you want any of those they are easy enough to find and sideload. There is also a big community pirating legitimate Android apps. According to some for every one purchase ten people use a pirated version.
- hot_gril 2y agoAlso, Fortnite isn't available on Google's store. Which is what that Epic case was about.
- grishka 2y agoAlso, there are many apps from sanctioned Russian companies that can't be published on Google Play, so they only exist in alternative app stores like RuStore and/or as self-updating apks. On iOS, they just can't "legally" have an app any more, period. Some made their apps PWAs, some say "just use the website", and some (Tinkoff/T-Bank in particular) keep trying to get into the app store with those double-bottom apps and also distribute them signed with enterprise certificates.