App stores, trust and anti-trust

Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by tonywastaken on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:59PM (#24228092)

Why don't disgruntled app developers just pull their apps from the app stores? Everyone is using custom launchers on Android these days anyway, lets show big tec how much customers want to use custom launchers.

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by bearjaws on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:06PM (#24228201)

RIP your app on iOS if you remove it from the app store.

There is very little an iPhone user can do if their phone isn't rooted.

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by amelius on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:46PM (#24228733)

How about: one developer puts a "launcher app" in the App store, and all the other developers use that to launch their apps?

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by scarface74 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:48PM (#24228759)

That’s also against the rules.

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by amelius on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:23PM (#24229725)

And how about: one developer creates a web-browser with some features that will make it start fast on certain web-apps that don't use javascript but only wasm, while other developers create apps for that browser?

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by scarface74 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:35PM (#24229823)

Having an alternative web engine is also against the rules. No I don’t agree with that rule.

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