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Google originally did not want to make any money from Android's app store (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It is not a monopoly. They have Apple as a major competitor

Thank god! Where can I download the Apple App store on to my Android phone? I can't? Then it's irrelevant to this conversation around Google's monopoly on Android.

Google allows sideloading within their own ecosystem.

As @logicbomb points out, just because a ecosystem is open, doesn't mean a monopoly doesn't exist. All the other stores are pretty niche and Google controls 90%+ of the market, so by definition it is a monopoly. A monopoly on it's own isn't illegal or even bad, and we have to dig in further to determine that. As you pointed out, it's pretty clear-cut that Apple has a forced monopoly where users have to actively work against the system to load apps outside of Apple's ecosystem. While Google's case isn't as clear many have argued that Google's Android has kneecapped alternative stores like Amazon's, possibly in anti-competitive ways.

I personally love f-droid, but Google does not make it an easy process to sideload!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The fact that it is called sideloading implies the monopoly. It'd just be "installing" otherwise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your device can't run the iPhone apps, and the Apple app store is an iPhone app

I downloaded this Lemmy client from an alternative store called IzzyOnDroid and I'm using it to type from my Android phone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your device can’t run the iPhone apps, and the Apple app store is an iPhone app

I think you missed the sarcasm in my comment.

I downloaded this Lemmy client from an alternative store called IzzyOnDroid and I’m using it to type from my Android phone

Technically IzzyOnDroid is an f-droid repository, not the store itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm using the izzyondroid app, not the f-droid app because it's janky

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The IzzyOnDroid App is an f-droid client...