Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoGoogle 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.
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoGoogle made the Play Store the primary (and only, for most people) way to install apps on Android.
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.