Google made the Play Store the primary (and only, for most people) way to install apps on Android.
Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.
madis@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.
In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
madis@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Preinstalled stores are limited to manufacturers and distributors and they suck, so nobody uses them. It’s pretty easy for someone with a tiny bit of tech knowledge to do some research and find out how to enable the ability to download APKs from the internet, but sadly, that’s not most people. Google doesn’t have a monopoly because Play Store is good (it isn’t), they have a monopoly because they’re anticompetitive.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Well, to make your metaphor more fitting, the whole town would have to be owned by your supermarket chain and they chose to put the town hall into one of their stores.
Now the court forces them to hand out build permits also for competing supermarkets.
sjpwarren@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s a bit like how you use Edge to install Firefox