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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by AnaniasAnanas on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:14PM (#19125002)
> App stores are the least-unreliable mechanism I have to trust executable code

More so than the repositories that various linux distros use? I honestly think that something like apt for android would be a much better solution - too bad, it will never happen because it would mess with google's monopoly.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by GordonS on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:58PM (#19125237)
There are Play Store alternatives, such as F-Droid, Aptoide and ApkMirror.

But it still comes down to discoverability and trust - you need to know about and trust these alternatives, and you need to change a setting on your device to "allow untrusted sources".

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by yoz-y on Saturday February 09, 2019 @06:38PM (#19125421)
Distro repositories are great but they are several orders of magnitudes smaller than the app stores. Ubuntu has ~50k packages available, app stores host millions of apps. Package maintainers to a great job but I don't think this model can scale up.
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