Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store
by wmf on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:51PM
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Target is across the street from Walmart. But if someone has an iPhone they cannot shop at the Google Play store.
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Sure, in Mountain View, but otherwise the parent comment is correct. Charles Fishman’s book The Wal-Mart Effect[1] goes into great depth about how Wal-Mart suffocates smaller stores across America and turns around to arm-twist their suppliers.
And Android, the only other realistic option, has effectively the same policies. Technically you can side load or use an alternative app store, but that means you don't get Play Services. And it's pretty impractical to develop apps without using those services.