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Andrex on Aug 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep ...

I can see the justification for this in Android's early life. Every Android phone having its own app store would have been a disaster for everyone: users, developers, Google, and even telcos in the long run.

Hard to believe, but Google Play (nee Android Market) was pretty damn shabby until about 2013 or so.

mdoms on Aug 22, 2021 [–]

Has it become "a disaster" on PCs or Macs?

xxpor on Aug 22, 2021 | | [–]

No, but that's not the disaster we'd have. We'd have what feature phones were like where you'd only be able to use the carriers store.

ethbr0 on Aug 22, 2021 | | [–]

On PCs, we had something before app stores. We just called it software distribution.

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