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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by e4e78a06 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:20PM (#30196351)
Android already has side loading, and Epic tried and failed to get a third party store going. I highly doubt this bill will do anything unless it mandates that Google can't mandate Google Play Store as a condition of receiving development support.
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by sudosysgen on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:27PM (#30197461)
F-Droid, Amazon, Samsung, and multiple Chinese companies are operating third-party stores with a fair amount of success.
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by Apocryphon on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:57PM (#30198723)
F-Droid is great for hackers- a niche subset. Chinese app stores are a special case because of legal and political separation. How successful are Amazon or Samsung's app stores, and do they actually host any popular apps that users can't get on the Play Store?
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by TipiKoivisto on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:24PM (#30202447)
Excellent question. Would be great to see some real stats about download numbers and available apps (and not only from the two big ones: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-av...).
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:02PM (#30197951)
> multiple Chinese companies are operating third-party stores with a fair amount of success

The Chinese companies are getting a substantial subsidy; the Google Play store is blocked in China.

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by vorpalhex on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:58PM (#30196968)
Epic had moderate success, as does f-droid.
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by scarface74 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:31PM (#30196536)
Epic also perfectly demonstrated the security issues involved.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fort...

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by JaimeThompson on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:38PM (#30196644)
Apple also perfectly demonstrated even more worrisome security issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30192743
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by scarface74 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:06PM (#30197111)
Would you trust Apple to patch security fixes and distribute it as soon as they know or a random third party developer?
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by bluSCALE4 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:22PM (#30197372)
Neither. Lots of bounty hunters have come out threatening to go public if Apple doesn't patch fix / pay them.
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by scarface74 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:27PM (#30202870)
Why haven’t they then? Or at least sold them already to one of the Israeli firms?
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by JaimeThompson on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:55AM (#30206193)
If the sold them to a private company we wouldn't know about it.
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