Comment on A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly
Brokkr@lemmy.world 1 year agoSurely the warning is justified though? Yes it’s a hurdle, but it seems reasonable and other platforms also warn users about apps from unverified sources, so it is common within the industry. If the play store is determined to be a monopoly, and gets broken up or off, I think a warning would still be warranted.
The default install thing used to be an issue, i.e. MS Explorer, but people seem to have stopped caring since all OS’s now have pre-installed junk.
I guess the argument could be made thst the play store should allow downloading of other app stores? I’d be in favor of that, but I don’t know if the courts can force something like that.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
99% of of users never get over that hurdle, which makes it unreasonable.
And the apps are from “unverified sources” because Google deliberately refuses to verify them. They’re happy to verify every single company in the world with a website… but they won’t verify even the major third party app stores?