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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The EU introduce the Digital Markets Act that is supposed to force Malus and Gogle to open up their ecosystem. Gogle is fairly open but for some reason another app store hasn't made it big. Malus is just locked down as hell but now has AltStore in the EU.

Malus does however not abide completely by the DMA. Someone mentioned "notarisation" to me recently: they still have to approve apps on alternative stores, which the EU isn't happy about. No one knows how long it'll take for the EU to force Malus to play by the rules and get rid of notarisation though. Maybe with how the US is acting, it could speed that up, but my bet is on 2026.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Latin word for apple tree, also means bad or evil. I think it should be malum (apple) instead, which also means bad or evil.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Itโ€™s like saying Crapple or Micro$oft, but pretentious, I guess.

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Think a little. I know you can get it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gogle is fairly open but for some reason another app store hasn't made it big

Samsung has their own app store which I presume does reasonably well in their ecosystem, and Amazon maintains their own app store for Kindle. F-Droid is also reasonably popular with the open source and privacy focused crowd.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Samsung has their own ecosystem and their appstore is installed by default (power of defaults). Amazon is actually shutting down their appstore, so much for popularity.

Do you know any other app store that normal people actually install on their phone to get paid apps?