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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by rahkiin on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:52PM (#28148978)
Which is kind of a problem, because all this does is provide choice to developers, not to users. I very much doubt the app would be available on both stores but cheaper on the FB one. Instead, the developer will pocket more money on the FB store, while the apps wont function without all kinds of permissions requires to accept.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by vineyardmike on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:02PM (#28149132)
> the developer will pocket more money on the FB store, while the apps wont function without all kinds of permissions requires to accept.

which will give it a bad reputation as a store and that will drive people away.

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by aeontech on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:13PM (#28149282)
> which will give it a bad reputation as a store and that will drive people away.

Which will give it a bad reputation among the HN crowd and drive a tiny fraction of global user population away. The rest will happily grant the permissions requested if it gives them access to the latest Angry Birds game, or to Facebook app itself for example...

I mean, how many millions of users does Facebook still have that either have no idea about the impact of sharing their life with it, or don't care, because their social network interaction is essentially locked into the platform?

How many people have been successful at getting their friends & family to switch from FB Messenger or WhatsApp to something like Signal? Some, sure...

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by vineyardmike on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:20PM (#28149384)
Many people have a bad image of Android and only use iOS because "walled garden = safe family". Those people are not going to suddenly be happy using the FB Store.

> How many people have been successful at getting their friends & family to switch from FB Messenger or WhatsApp to something like Signal? Some, sure.

Maybe it's an americanism, but i know almost no one that doesnt use SMS exclusively on android and SMS + iMessage on iphone. a few techies use signal, but i've never met anyone ask to use any other chat platform.

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by judge2020 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:01AM (#28152520)
As long as the Facebook store also maintains a reputation for not having malware, Facebook parents will happing download "Facebook App Store" to download "Facebook".
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by dntrkv on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:14PM (#28149290)
Just like FB's bad reputation drives people away?
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by vineyardmike on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:20PM (#28149385)
Yes!
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by dntrkv on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:24PM (#28149426)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

Doesn't seem to be working.

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