Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly
le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoThere are differences between play store and other store. For instance, on fdroid you have a pop up asking each and every time if you want to install or update the app after pressing install button. Play store you just click install and let it do its work in the background.
I don’t think fdroid can update app by itself in the background. Play store can.
I mean third party store doesn’t have access to some of the api play store have, things you don’t care but that is important to normies and that would induce reduced profit from epic store.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
You don’t have that popup on NeoStore and other alternatives, because they use Android’s new APIs. F-Droid (the app) somehow gets nowhere.
T156@lemmy.world 7 months ago
F-Droid has allegedly had automatic/silent installs for a while now, although only on newer versions of Android (12+).
le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I used droid-ify recently, which is well maintained and still got these pop up. Are you sure we’re talking about the same thing ? I mean pop up that says « would you like to install x app ». Yes no. And you got to give permission to the store first to even show this pop up.
tb_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Updates specifically, initial install still gives the pop-up.