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Developers pay Google to access its services. Infrastructure costs account for less than 1% of the profit margin and are practically negligible. Google acts lik
by lobito25 10mo ago
Developers pay Google to access its services. Infrastructure costs account for less than 1% of the profit margin and are practically negligible. Google acts like a pimp, obsessed with squeezing profit above all else.
- musicale 10mo agoIf Google allowed other App stores on Android then maybe Amazon could make one. Or maybe they could add a setting to allow users to install their own APKs somehow.
- bloppe 10mo agoYou can install your own APK already. It's only slightly inconvenient. But apparently that's inconvenient enough to get zero business.
- shakna 10mo agoIt also involves around three or four "I know this could be dangerous" click-throughs. That is harder to get an audience of everyday, than settling for paying someone you are probably already paying.
- Ferret7446 10mo agoIt only takes 2-3 clicks once (go to settings via direct link, enable allow installs, go back and install). It is a non-issue
- shakna 10mo agoThe average person will not click through a security warning. And if they do, they don't know what they're expected to do on that settings page. They are trained _not_ to bypass security.
- metiscus 10mo agoThey're also killing this off next year and you'll have to install via adb, unless something changed and I didn't hear about it.
- bsimpson 10mo agoAmazon is the most famous example of making an alternative app store for Android. Guess what? Nobody cared.
- petre 10mo agoIs the Samsung app store still a thing. I imagine it's riddled with junk apps.
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