My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.
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gray@pawb.social 3 days agoSteam isn’t a monopoly.
The PC is an open platform, you can use any game store or launcher you want - unlike the iPhone, Android (without sideloading), PlayStation, switch, or Xbox.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
jaschen@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ya, but I also installed fdroid pretty easily without the system blocking me.
7arakun@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah the comments about Steam being a monopoly are weird to me. Steam has a huge market share, but they don’t own the whole market and they don’t try to prevent you from buying your games elsewhere. Proton even works on non-steam games. I’ve used it to play WoW private servers on Linux.
If Valve isn’t a pro-consumer company, then I don’t know what company could possibly fit the criteria. They’re not perfect, but they’ve earned the trust they have. I’ll trust Valve until they give me a reason not to.