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Absolutely NOT! It's waaay better to have huge multinational corporation dictate what's right and what's wrong and what's good and what's bad! And they do it fo

• krolden 5y ago
  Well its their platform
  • lillecarl 5y ago
    It doesn't work like that when you're one of two players in the segment, that's what antitrust is about. "It's their platform" would work well if there were any significant alternatives, which there aren't.
    • entropicdrifter 5y ago
      I'd agree completely if you were talking about Apple and the App Store here, but this is Android. You can install alternative app stores on it without rooting it or any sort of advanced user skills. F-Droid is pretty great IMO.
    • drusepth 5y ago
      There are many popular app stores on Android and you're free to use any of them (or none of them, if you just download apps directly from websites) without rooting your phone, jailbreaking, etc. A recent list of someone's favorites: https://42matters.com/blog/?p=the-best-of-2020-a-list-of-app-stores-for-android-apps https://42matters.com/blog/?p=the-best-of-2020-a-list-of-app...
      • AnthonyMouse 5y ago
        Apple and Google together have 95% market share. From the perspective of an Android user, a lot of the alternatives are interesting. Especially F-Droid. From the perspective of the app developer, it doesn't work. You use Apple and Google or you lose 95% of the market. And the same constraint keeps it that way. You lose most of the Android market if you're not in Google Play, so nearly everything that isn't explicitly banned can be found in Google Play, so most users have no occasion to install any other app store and the friction to developers using another one to the exclusion of Google Play remains high.