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GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by 0df8dkdf »

Hmmm the main issue is not an App Store. It is rather how Android is packaged. There is F-Droid type of store out there, it is just that it is not in the play store. As for iOS there really no proper way to install except jailbreaking any way. The bottom we don't need another App Store, rather a FOSS distribution of OS for Android (e.g: https://www.replicant.us/about.php ) that kind like the Debian distro for desktop Linux. As for iOS, is Darwin still open source, maybe a distro for iPhone with an open source Darwin fork?

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by Pfhreak »

Sounds like a great way to create incentives that undermine githubs mission while simultaneously taking a huge amount of developer resources for a product that will have niche interest at best.

Building app stores is hard. Moderating app stores is hard. Both are significantly different from running GitHub.

While I appreciate the author's intent here, this just doesn't feel like it was deeply thought out.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by carapace »

> They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.

The debacle IMO was all the folks who thought GH taking down youtube-dl was newsworthy at all in the first place. The infantile dependency is the problem, not the lack of yet another gatekeeper.

> I trust [MS] more than Apple and Google.

Thank you for the LOL. Look, VSCode is nice but don't be so naive.

Anyone can start an "app store", but can they make money at it? If MS thought they could make money running an app store would they hesitate? (Also, they already have an app store.)

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by garrepi »

> Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.

I wouldn't say they were "awesome" during the youtube-dl stuff. They were slow to respond and non-transparent about what was happening behind the scenes.

Also, user's have been calling for GitHub to terminate their contract with ICE for a long time now[0] to no avail.

GitHub is better than most, no doubt, when it comes to "listen[ing] to their users" but they still have a ways to go.

[0](https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0)

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