Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by beeflaw on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:00PM
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It's a good way to not get developers on board. Yes, you can easily develop for iOS/Android and as a result the respective stores are drowned in crap. Merely publishing on there will give you zero visibility. On curated platforms, there's the benefit of being a big fish in a small pond.
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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by indymike on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:07PM
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This is what Apple did in the beginning, too. I felt as you did about it at the time. Six months later things opened up and the rest is history.
Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
by beeflaw on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:15PM
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Apple didn't start out with a curated store, they started out with "open" HTML5 apps that couldn't do shit.
Today, Apple barely can do quality control on the iOS store, Google essentially doesn't bother, why should a small shop deal with the issue right off the bat?