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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
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None of those are allowed on the Play Store. And when you try to side load an app, it warns you about it being dangerous.
They're not disallowed on the Play Store. They just choose not to put them there specifically because they don't want to pay Google 30%.
But that's not what we're discussing. We're discussing 3rd party app stores. Computers have had warnings about installing software since the beginning of computers, since no one has vetted whether it is malicious (not that the app stores are immune from malicious apps) so I don't see that as an issue. I would see mandating the removal of those warnings as an issue.
The Play Store doesn't allow other app stores.
"4.5 You may not use Google Play to distribute or make available any Product that has a purpose that facilitates the distribution of software applications and games for use on Android devices outside of Google Play." - Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement
I think "Computers" go back way farther than you're imagining. There was a time when you didn't even install software on computers. You just put in a disk and ran what was on it. We don't even need to go back to when "Computer" was an actual job title. Something that humans (mostly women) did.
...huh? Why would there be an app store inside an app store?
No I was just speaking simply. You know what I meant.
To make it easy to access other app stores of course. You can use one web browser to download another can't you.
Maybe too simply, because I really don't. Windows didn't give any warnings about installing any programs until Windows 10 I think. And even then it's only the truly esoteric and unknown to Microsoft.