Comment on The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I disagree, I preferred when all the shows and movies were on netflix, and I like that all of my games are on Steam. Opening the market creates exclusives, which are bad imho

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  • chepox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mate. Trusting a company not to shaft you when you have no alternatives is never a good idea. It is actually really bad.

    Companies do not act towards the benefit of the customer. It is always towards a better bottom line, and those decisions many times do not have your best interest at heart. If you have no choices, the companies have no incentive to make your experience any better. (see Internet Explorer). Competition is always a good thing. It forces companies to be better. The key word there is forces because they will not do it on their own.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sadly, often when you appear to have choices, you still don’t have a choice. The type of competition that practically benefits users rarely exists and profit-maximizing businesses actively work to reduce or eliminate it. In the long run competition in a market disappears via consolidation - the act of the winners acquiring the losers.

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    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s unfortunately not always happy days and rainbows in “competition land” either though. It usually just leads to a race to the bottom in the pursuit of infinite profit growth, leaving the customer with shit on all sides.

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      • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty sure early Netflix was competing with outright piracy, so they had to keep their prices down and their service convenient. Actually that is probably the best state for a digital market to be in, where there is a vibrant piracy community keeping companies honest with both their prices and services. Because fuck the law when all it does is fuck me.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You preferred a time that never existed eh? Me too.

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You disappoint Paul McGann. Netflix never had all the shows or movies. There was a time when they were the only game in town. But even that is being viewed through heavily nostalgia by you. And not in any way. Objectively.

    There’s no reason we could not have a standard interface and way of content delivery with multiple stores as a back end. The problem isn’t the stores and the stores are not ultimately used to blame for exclusives. That is all on the rights holders. It is well within the right holders. Ability to reject exclusivity.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As opposed to everything being exclusive to one platform, like you seem to prefer???

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I mean, you’d only have to get that one account then. Not 20 different ones. Easy peasy. However, that platform must then be extraordinary benevolent and pretty much non-profit for that to end well.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And how often has that been the case so far?

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I understand his point though. It should be Netflix with every show vs Hulu with every show vs Max with every show. So the competition is on distribution quality and price, not content.

      In the 1930’s studios owned the movie theaters so you could only watch a 20th Century Fox movie at a 20th Century theatre. Vertical integration of content with distribution was made illegal. But of course corporations ignored the law based on the premise that doing an illegal action with a computer isn’t illegal because the law against vertical monopolies didn’t technically say “streaming service” in 1940.

      Several years ago, the law was repealed and Disney+ launched a few months later. This started the rush of vertical monopolies of content with distribution that we live with today.

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is old wisdom from well before computers even exist

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Steam is only good because of who currently runs things. If he steps down shit could go to hell on steam.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s always been alternative app stores and sideloading on Android. The only thing this really opens up is a lot more companies could end up with your payment info and I’m definitely not a fan of apks that will now be allowed to force update themselves in the background. That’s a terrible idea. So would having to update apks from dozens of different sources.

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