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A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly(www.wired.com)

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Zink@pawb.social
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Not really a monopoly, sadly. Still found it a dick move the first time it warned me that an apk I downloaded wasn’t from play.

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Steve@communick.news
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“Monopoly - (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller”

Certainly a practical monopoly, if not a literal one. I would bet 99.9% of all app installs on android are through the Play Store.

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OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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Google Play accounts for well over 90 percent of all downloads onto Android phones in the US, according to state prosecutors

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MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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I’m comfortable installing apks and even I probably only have 3 or 4 vs the 50 or 60 play store apps on my phone.

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