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

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    11 months ago

    Are those all on the phone by default?

    Edit: I didn’t ask if some of them are installed by default, I asked if ALL of them are installed by default.

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      11 months ago

      I can’t speak for the others, but the Samsung Galaxy Store does come pre-installed. However, Google paid Samsung for the Play Store to be the default action for app installs. So you get both stores and can pick which one you want.

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        11 months ago

        That’s just two options from two big players who cooperate, and only on some devices.

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        11 months ago

        The Samsung galaxy store comes pre-installed on Samsung phones, I haven’t heard of it being pre-installed on non-samsung phones.

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        So what you’re saying is that two of them are installed by default on some phones, but not all of them? Because the comment they replied to was talking about app stores being installed by default, so I’m asking if all those app stores are all installed by default. Because it seems like only some of them sometimes get installed by default on some phones.

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          11 months ago

          I don’t know what’s on every phone. But I can confirm those 2 are defaults on some devices through personal experience.

          And there are also devices without the Play store by default. Amazon products are probably the best example, but they’re not the only ones.

          Don’t get me wrong - Google does some terrible shit. But they’re better than pretty much every other major software company on this issue. All the major game consoles and Apple require the use of their stores exclusively. Microsoft requires the Microsoft store to be installed on any modern Windows machine.

          Yeah - the Play Store is the de-facto default and by far the most successful on the platform. And yeah - Google likes it that way and encourages it. But so does everyone else. The difference is that Google is the best actor in this area.

          Google allows sideloading. They allow other storefronts. They allow other stores to be installed by default by manufacturers. They allow manufacturers to not include the Play Store. And they allow the removal/disabling of the Play Store by users.

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        11 months ago

        The jury settled on the relevant geographic market being “worldwide excluding China”.