Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

• icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t speak for the others, but the Samsung Galaxy Store does come pre-installed. However, Google paid Samsung for the Play Store to be the default action for app installs. So you get both stores and can pick which one you want.

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  • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s just two options from two big players who cooperate, and only on some devices.

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Samsung galaxy store comes pre-installed on Samsung phones, I haven’t heard of it being pre-installed on non-samsung phones.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Galaxy Store is…

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But they’re only default on their respective devices right?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a reminder, this is the comment you replied to:

      Phone makers weren’t allowed to include other app stores by default

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      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As a reminder that was in fact not the comment I replied to.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Amazon store and Galaxy store are absolutely installed by default on many devices.

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is that two of them are installed by default, but not all of them?

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know what’s on every phone. But I can confirm those 2 are defaults on some devices through personal experience.

      And there are also devices without the Play store by default. Amazon products are probably the best example, but they’re not the only ones.

      Don’t get me wrong - Google does some terrible shit. But they’re better than pretty much every other major software company on this issue. All the major game consoles and Apple require the use of their stores exclusively. Microsoft requires the Microsoft store to be installed on any modern Windows machine.

      Yeah - the Play Store is the de-facto default and by far the most successful on the platform. And yeah - Google likes it that way and encourages it. But so does everyone else. The difference is that Google is the best actor in this area.

      Google allows sideloading. They allow other storefronts. They allow other stores to be installed by default by manufacturers. They allow manufacturers to not include the Play Store. And they allow the removal/disabling of the Play Store by users.

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• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mi app store is, and on Chinese models is the only one.

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  • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The jury settled on the relevant geographic market being “worldwide excluding China”.

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