Amazon used to encourage you to sideload their app store on android. You got a free copy of Angry Birds 2 if you did, and I think at one point you may have needed to do it if you wanted to install prime video at all.
It still ended up going away and they gave up. So allowing sideloading is hardly the threat you think it is.
Maybe. Incentives are different on iOS. Apps are more-restricted and the platform’s more valuable. Could play out like it did on Android, but might not.
… and the platform’s more restrictive. There were two factors I mentioned. And that’s just store revenue—it’ll skew harder toward Apple if you include other ways of making money on mobile.
I don’t recall Facebook publicly throwing any tantrums over Play Store policy changes.
It’s also possible that being able to put a store on both platforms is the kind of thing that would get, say, Facebook to expand the Quest software store to mobile. They’ll want to do that for Apple’s headset at least, if these changes open that up to them—expanding that effort to include iOS and Android seems like something with decent odds of happening.
Knowing the EU, further privacy policies are probably going to be announced at some point, greatly crippling the current form of targeted advertising, including on Android.
That’d be nice. Not having “doesn’t let companies do shit to you that ought to be illegal… as much” be a platform differentiator would be great. That should just be a given.
It still ended up going away and they gave up. So allowing sideloading is hardly the threat you think it is.