Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee

Re:Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App S... by buboard on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:58AM (#20486117)

I would rather see the users turning away from app stores and into the web. The mobile app companies are just going to revolt, apple will cut them some slack, and they ll go back to sleeping with the devil

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Re:Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App S... by Too on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:30PM (#20486704)

Yep, people compare app stores with the wild west of old windows applications and ask how could we possibly go back.

The biggest improvement on the smartphones in this regard is not the app stores themself, it's the very tight sandboxing of apps that is the real enabler of the ecosystem. With such a good sandbox we could be installing apps from anywhere on the web as we did on windows before but at the same time not risk our whole system in the process as we did before.

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Re:Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App S... by buboard on Saturday July 20, 2019 @02:33PM (#20487491)

We already have the browser. It needs relatively few mobile extensions to support the same experience as 99% of non-gaming apps.

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Re:Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App S... by millstone on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:38AM (#20490485)

As a user I prefer Apple's advertising IDs to the web's crazy canvas-antialiasing-fingerprinting and whatever.

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