> It'd be cool if an interested third party could build out an app store that automatically sources from github (and its competitors), though.
That’s called a package repository and there are hundreds (thousands?) of them.
An “App Store” is a vertically integrated package repo.
There is F-droid but its success is unfortunately only moderate at best.
Element is actually in the F-droid store but the version is outdated.
Yeah, I "use" fdroid. Usually that means searching for apps, finding their download links broken, and then finding the apk on a couple skeezy-looking apk download pages and checking that they checksum the same (verifying, at best, that the skeezy sites have the same possibly hacked apk... ick)
Lately, I love what they've been doing. Even github -- there have been disappointments, for sure, but nothing like the egregious misbehavior in the bad old days. But given their history; given Google's "do no evil" bait&switch... I don't want to hand them more power.
It'd be cool if an interested third party could build out an app store that automatically sources from github (and its competitors), though.