I feel like I would have agreed with Google had they just argued “This is our private store. We did all the work to build it. We control the rules. If you want to make the Epic Store apk, you can. Sideloading is an absolute possibility. No hacking needed.”
I would agree with that.
Instead they argued by Epic charging money without giving google a slice, it compromises users safety and the innovation of the platform.
Fuck
Off.
But apps outside of their store (such as fdroid) get constantly pinged for malware security scans, and android treats them as second class citizens in a lot of scenarios. It’s really frustrating to fight your phone on so many fronts just to use the apps you want.
Fuck epic, but good for indie app developers who would otherwise have to hand over blood money to apple and Google
Yeah, Epic is shitty, but compared to Google they’re good.
If Google is sad, I’m happy
Yeah, Google became such a shitty company. Used to love them, now I’d like to see them fail.
no doubt china will be making a similar judgement for Tencent etc.
Bizarre ruling. There are plenty of other ways to get apps on an Android phone. Amazon even had an App Store for a while.
