• 9point6@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Samsung & Amazon have had their own fairly successful stores for years. Compete if you feel so strongly

    This is nothing like the situation on Apple devices

    • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Amazon doesn’t sell devices with Google Play or other google apps loaded on them, they specifically don’t have a deal with google, and instead create a flavor of android based on the AOSP, which is increasingly minimalistic on purpose.

      Samsung does have a store, but its not like Google didn’t try to stop it.

      Basically your options are to do everything that google says, or reinvent the wheel trying to push AOSP.