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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"a lot" means less than 0.01% of android users.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And stuff like fortnite would never make it to fdroid as well. People seem to jump through so many hoops to not admit the obvious monopoly in play.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fdroid is for open source apps. Fortnite is anything but.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was my point? Make it as in make its way to fdroid due to their restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Epic ask that Fortnite is on any store but their own. They want their fully capable launcher on the dominant store.

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

Ik I was referring to previous comment mate. They were suggesting there are alternatives like fdroid.