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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by m-p-3 on Saturday February 09, 2019 @04:03PM (#19124616)
> have a strategy that totally relies on a party out of your control

If it's possible to implement the app as a PWA sure, but then discoverability becomes an issue.

Sadly, App Stores are a natural monopoly and everyone expect them to be fair but they clearly can't.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by sverhagen on Saturday February 09, 2019 @06:39PM (#19125426)
Are they a natural monopoly by choice or by necessity? Not sure what "natural" means, here. I could imagine some sort of federation that would make them less of a monopoly, understandably not Google's choice, though.
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by pas on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:08PM (#19125788)
Natural probably means that for a given mobile platform it's natural - due to network effects and other market forces (e.g. the platform owner heavily subsidizing/supporting their choice of store) - for one store to emerge as a monopoly.
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