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On Android, you already have this since you can install apps directly. There is no dedicated open store, but nobody is preventing developers from publishing their Android apps on their homepage.
> There is no dedicated open store For FOSS at least, there is F-Droid.
For those of you wondering, it appears that the company mentioned in the article, GreenLionSoft [1], develops apps that show public transportation schedules in Spain, at least as of 2017 [2]. Their Google Play page still exists in some places but has been cleared of all apps [3]. I can't find Pablo A. Martinez's personal developer account; the closest match is com.pablomartinez, which belongs (belonged?) to a law for…
Perhaps they consider this sort of app a direct competitor to Google maps?
Banning competitors seems like a recipe for antitrust lawsuits.
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Your apps/schedules don't tell you the platform? Here (GER & NL), they always tell you the track - be it official apps or the paper schedules - and all waiting areas are on the platforms themselves. Utrecht is the only exception I know, where there are still larger designated waiting areas outside the platform (tho the building is on top of the platforms, so you basically wait next to the escalator)
At Penn, the track is not announced until just a few moments before the train begins to board. This is ostensibly because the platforms are too small for people to wait on them, but it also has the side effect of keeping crowds up in the waiting area with all the shops. The waiting area is on top of the escalators at Penn as well, but since you don't know which track you need to wait for, it is always a mad dash down…
What I found the most infuriating is this: > We recommend that you use an alternative method for distributing your apps in the future. There is no reasonable alternative method for distributing commercial apps on android. The app store is a monopoly.
Is online Office 365 (I'm using Firefox on Linux) comparable to gdocs? My account's payment method has been flagged twice for some reason, and reading this makes me think how screwed I'd be if my startup's gapps account gets flagged.
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As with all things like this, it depends on entirely who you are and how much you spend.
The same certainly applies to play store, “hahahaha no” still accurately reflects the general case for both platforms.
Pay to play? I guess so.
Wow, I feel for that company. I was always skeptical of people raising alarm bells at everything "going chrome," but now I'm starting to get it - Google has the ability to just nuke a company from orbit on a whim, and I'm not sure anybody can do anything about it. Sure, that company developed a business around Google. But it still feels bad. The only problem is that I don't trust a large portion of American politicia…
Who is proposing a propagandic censorship machine? The example, as stupid as it was, was intended to highlight bias and ask the question of how big tech can be trusted to act without ideological or personal preference when it comes to censoring speech, deciding what apps are permissible, who can earn on their platforms etc. I don’t hear anyone who is championing regulation suggesting that the solution to censorship o…
You may fairly say that I am engaging in slippery slope, but I take freedom of speech and thought very seriously, and so any attacks on it to any degree are terribly inflated in my mind.
Wait a second... Did I understand it bad or if my Google dev account gets banned I cannot even create a new dev account directly linked to my person for the rest of my life? What.
Any Google employee reading here willing to help, Also if possible please ask your leadership to fix your company's customer support.