• Zink@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      “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.

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        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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        1 year ago

        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.