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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] phx@lemmy.world 103 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the "you can't buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut" which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 45 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the Kindle app pretty blatantly tells you why they removed in-app purchases.