this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
1440 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
59174 readers
2401 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Huh? They could just do a Fortnite.apk
No the point. Most users won't install anything not on the app store.
Yea, but how is that a monopoly? There is even a fullon android AppStore from Amazon
A monopoly is about market share and access to a market, "there is also ..." doesn't cut it in that discussion.
A lot of people use fdroid
"a lot" means less than 0.01% of android users.
And stuff like fortnite would never make it to fdroid as well. People seem to jump through so many hoops to not admit the obvious monopoly in play.
Fdroid is for open source apps. Fortnite is anything but.
That was my point? Make it as in make its way to fdroid due to their restrictions.
Ah. My bad. I misread it.
Ah np
Ah yes, year of linux vibes.
I don't like the notion that something having majority market share makes it a monopoly. The definition of monopoly, at least, as understood by me implies control of supply, not just having a higher demand.
They do infact. The exact filename is
FortniteInstaller-5.3.0.apk, so you're not too off the mark. :)