Just try getting a popular app anywhere else. There are options of course, but they require a working knowledge of APKs and other technical concepts which many casual users may not be familiar with. Even once you get them installed, these apps often don’t work without play services, and – depending on the source – can be less secure.
Google to pay $700 million in case over whether its app store is an illegal monopoly
Submitted 11 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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blunderworld@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
LDerJim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uhm. This is not true. They don’t require working knowledge of apks and Android walks you through the process of installing via Unknown Sources.
Try installing packages from outside iOS…
blunderworld@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I don’t use iOS and have only been able to install many popular apps through APKs sourced from other sites like github and apkpure.
Ill admit I don’t know much about side loading but I think that only supports my original point that the average user isnt aware of less intuitive alternatives to the play store.
Nima@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure this isn’t the right place to ask this, but does anyone have a website they use for apks that is pretty solid?
I’m trying to de-google my life and the play store is the last holdover for me. I already use F-droid but that is more for open source software.
apologies if this was the wrong place to ask.
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 11 months ago
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
F-droid is awesome, but I don’t think it will ever be mass market
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hello sundar had no idea you were on lemmy
blunderworld@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
???
Are you trying to imply my comment is somehow pro-google?
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
My phone can install APKs out of the box. XAPKs need a separate installer though, but that is a one time problem. Many APKs even get recognised by the playstore which made it easier to update it.
My device either isn’t verified or in some way geolocked for some apps so I had to get APKs of them to use those apps and I never had a problem with that.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On the consumer side another article I read said that the settlement should provide $2 each, and then a pro rata payment based on the amount of app store purchases between 2016 and the settlement date.
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
based on the amount of app store purchases between 2016 and the settlement date.
Oh I wonder if all play store purchases are included or just app app store stuff, if books are included I might be able to get a whole 5$ lmao
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and will make changes to its app store it has resisted for years in order to resolve a an antitrust lawsuit brought by state attorneys general, the company announced on Monday.
“We’re pleased to resolve our case with the states and move forward on a settlement,” Wilson White, Google vice president of government affairs and public policy, said in a company blog post.
While states announced a settlement with Google back in September, the details were unknown until the company publicly revealed the terms of the agreement on Monday.
A federal judge will hold hearings in January about what changes Google must make in order to remedy the anti-trust issues raised in court at the trial.
On iPhones, Apple operates an app store under terms similar to Google, and it, too, has been the target of scrutiny in lawsuits and by policymakers.
Among them, a case brought by the Justice Department centered on Google allegedly breaking the law in maintaining its dominance of online search and advertising.
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MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So what is that? What they earn in a day running the app store?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
They made about $42 billion last year. Supposedly they keep about 30% of that, so it’s about 20 days worth of Google’s cut.
Cost of doing business.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did some searching.
In 2021, the Apple App Store reportedly reached around 85 billion U.S. dollars in revenues from global consumers worldwide.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google: oh ok, is cash good? gets out wallet
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No need to get the wallet out when loose pocket change will cover it