Obviously they both offer an incredible service but competition is always good!
Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
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Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#2On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload. So that's a no go.
On Androids, I think you can install third party appstores. fdroid is the one I've heard before, but there could be more.
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#3Web Apps & PWAs :) There's a lot you can do to optimize offline PWA use.
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#4PWA Babyb~~~~
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#5Web Apps & PWAs :) There's a lot you can do to optimize offline PWA use.
It would be great to see an "app store" that drives discoverability of PWA apps.
Edit: googled and found this: https://store.app/
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#6Web Apps & PWAs :) There's a lot you can do to optimize offline PWA use.
It would be great to see an "app store" that drives discoverability of PWA apps. Edit: googled and found this: https://store.app/
Handsome site, but doesn't seem very active sadly.
PWAs really struggle with distribution - it comes down to the PWA maker (or team) having enough charisma, alignment, and budget to get people to follow the kind of arcane instructions for installing each unique PWA.
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#7On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload. So that's a no go. On Androids, I think you can install third party appstores. fdroid is the one I've heard before, but there could be more.
>On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload
Very sad state of affair considering we are progressing into the 2nd quarter of the 21st Century, and some people are not complaining but willingly embracing (paying) into this by design incapability in the name of security and convenience (read profit margins).
It's methaphorically like willingly living in a country with virtual great wall around with a benevelont dictator but it's one of the life choices that people voluntarily need to make nonetheless.
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#8On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload. So that's a no go. On Androids, I think you can install third party appstores. fdroid is the one I've heard before, but there could be more.
In the EU, iPhone users can install from alternative sources:
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#9On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload. So that's a no go. On Androids, I think you can install third party appstores. fdroid is the one I've heard before, but there could be more.
>On iPhones, Apple forbids third party appstores. You cannot also sideload Very sad state of affair considering we are progressing into the 2nd quarter of the 21st Century, and some people are not complaining but willingly embracing (paying) into this by design incapability in the name of security and convenience (read profit margins). It's methaphorically like willingly living in a country with virtual great wall ar…
Interestingly, moving countries (to the EU) could get you the option to break out of Apple's great wall.
Re: Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
#10Most of these [0] started as desktop software but some have extended to mobile devices in ways that can interact via cloud with the version on your desktop, if I'm not mistaken.