• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    For everyone in the back of the room, monopoly in the context doesn’t require to literally have no other choice. It’s enough for the alternatives to be impractical as in not widely used in practice.

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      1 year ago

      Well that’s an easy one then, if that’s true.

      Especially for Apple phones, damn.

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      I’m not the world’s most elite hacker, but I know a thing or two and it took me a long time to get F-Droid going on my Android and even longer to figure out how to side load apps and where to get the files for side loading.

      It can be done but I’d guess 99% of people out there have never and will never do these 2 things.

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        Android makes you double confirm every installation on F-Droid. If you want to install something you have to tap to download, then tap again to actually install the software. Updating apps is incredibly annoying.

        The google store doesn’t do this. They allow sideloading, but they do a lot to discourage it.

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      1 year ago

      Is it possible that alternatives are not widely used because most people don’t want to use alternatives in the first place?

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        Sure it is. It doesn’t change the monopoly position. The real question isn’t whether this is a monopoly but whether it’s being abused. E.g. imagine if Google charged 99% fee on any sale via the Play Store. Or if Google disallowed alternative methods of payment but their own for any app distributed on the Play Store.