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Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

How about the Google Play as system app? I would like to see that gone too. Just make every app stores normal apps. No special privileges.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The problem is that there are very good reasons to have specific authoritative app stores/package repositories. and it is a lot harder to have privileged and unprivileged accounts on a phone versus a computer.

But yeah. Something has to be done about that since it is the fundamental issue with mobile devices.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Almost like those systems were designed to be monopolistic and anti-competitive from the very beginning…

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