Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
by josephcsible on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:43PM
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Maybe this is the antitrust law we need for app stores: ban owners of app stores from distributing apps by any means if they wouldn't allow an app with the same functionality but written by an arbitrary third party to be distributed in their own store.
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Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
by chasil on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:56PM
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The developer could grey out the option, and (upon triggering) advise the user to install Amazon app store (or F-Droid) and reinstall the app from there for full functionality.
I'm sure that Google would (not) love that, but linking to a curated page of apps with enhanced functionality on alternate stores would be useful in the many ongoing antitrust actions against the Play store.