Re:Aptoide wins court battle against Google in landmark case
by wedlled on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:50AM
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As per their 'About page' no difference:
"The original F-Droid client app was based on the Aptoide app developed by Roberto Jacinto."
F-Droid is a fork of the original Aptoide project, it seems.
Re:Aptoide wins court battle against Google in landmark case
by ptx on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:04AM
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It was forked in 2010, so the the differences after 8 years of separate development are probably quite significant. (But both clients let you add third-party repositories, so in that regard there is no difference.)
The FOSS store f-droid also allows to add custom apt-like repositories, which for example CopperheadOS used to add a non-sanctioned patched version of the "signal" app. Moxie doesnt want forks of signal that are also using signal's servers. CopperheadOS did it anyway because signal is not compatible without Google Apps installed (removing google cloud messaging because CopperHeadOS doesnt include Google play services).