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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by ffpip on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:00PM (#24888353)
It's filled with ads and open source ripoffs. These kind of apps don't exist in App Store due to heavy human review.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by snazz on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:19PM (#24888558)
It's worth mentioning that Apple's human review can be very incompetent. They rejected an update to iSH on TestFlight (https://ish.app) because the reviewer thought that the app's shell prompt was a "blank screen".

That said, in general, I appreciate the greater average quality of apps in the App Store.

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by robertlagrant on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:38PM (#24889236)
> open source ripoffs

What's an open source ripoff?

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by greenyoda on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:29PM (#24889631)
I'm guessing it means rebranding an open source app that's actually available for free, and charging money for it.
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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by ffpip on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:04PM (#24892483)
A developer copies an open source app, adds advertisements, and publishes it to the play store as a closed source app. He promotes his app over the original app by paying Google.
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