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Re:Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the i... by lupusreal on Friday June 14, 2024 @12:23PM (#40682182)
> [3P appstores] are hard and expensive to run - not a thing any interested individual/company can afford to do for themselves and their peers.

F-Droid proves it can be done without much money.

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Re:Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the i... by qwerty456127 on Friday June 14, 2024 @12:32PM (#40682263)
As I understand, this is only so because F-Droid itself is side-loaded. The conditions Apple enforces on stores are a different story.
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Re:Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the i... by lupusreal on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:03PM (#40683213)
That's a trait of Apple restrictions, not an intrinsic trait of running a third party appstores.
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