Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds

Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by risyachka on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:36PM (#25381605)

Have you ever published an app to Android? That is madness - there are like 7 stores not counting official Google Play. Each has their own APIs, SDKs etc. All you do for weeks is basically update and build apks for each store, they get rejected or you find a bug later and again.

From the development point of view 1 store at saves a huge amount of time.

I am all for open platform, low fees etc. But I am against a billion store apps.

And why would consumers want 10 store apps? And then search the app you want in each of them? I really doubt that.

Also how many of other stores have resources to check and validate each app? Probably none.

We should push Apple to treat all developers equally, lower fees, etc, but creating a bunch of app stores is not the way. Just integrate all your wishes in the one.

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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by pie_flavor on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:37PM (#25393201)

You are using an argument for not wanting to publish to more than one store, to defend a position of not wanting there to be more than one store.

Simply because you don't want to use it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. If you don't want to publish anywhere except Play, don't.

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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by munawwar on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:06PM (#25390272)

If there is enough incentive, OSS devs would create some libraries with common interface across stores.. but there is no incentive, as android's main store is google's.

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