Microsoft To Sell Xbox Games Directly Through Android App (cnbc.com) 9
Microsoft will offer direct game purchases through its Xbox app for Android starting November, following a U.S. court ruling against Google's app store monopoly. The move allows Microsoft to circumvent Google's revenue cut on in-app purchases and signals renewed focus on mobile gaming, bolstered by its recent $75.4 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition.
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I'm a little perplexed by this. I used Amazon's app store many years ago. I see it's still a thing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/... [amazon.com]
Find something even remotely close to the Amazon app store for an iOS device. Or, the ability to even sideload apps on an iOS device. OK, I know that is supposed to be in the works, but I've been hearing about it for a while now. I still haven't seen it actually working yet.
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From what I can tell from the latest estimates [counterpointresearch.com], Apple is 2nd (16%) in worldwide smartphone market share behind Samsung (19%) and just ahead of Xiaomi (15%) when it comes to phone manufacturers. When it comes to OS worldwide market share [statcounter.com], Android is dominant at 72% with iOS holding 27%. In the US [counterpointresearch.com], Apple has 52% compared to Samsung's 24%. iOS [statcounter.com] is 57% to Android's 42%.
Realistically, one could argue that Android and Apple hold duopolies in OS. In the US, Apple is more dominant in the US than worldwide.
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Apple certainly has a monopoly over it's app store. And the monopoly company is much more open with it's app store.
I stopped using Amazon's app store because the apps didn't get updated as frequently as they did on the Play store. At least it was an option. I've never used it, but it looks like Samsung has an app store, too.
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Hardware store products are interoperable, not deliberately non-interoperable like apple products.
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Neither Google nor apple has a monopoly on phones.
Apple has a monopoly on iOS app stores, Google does not have a monopoly on Android app stores.
Your statement makes no sense.
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According to the filing, starting in November, for three years, Google will not be able to:
Pay companies to launch apps exclusively or first on Google Play
Pay companies so they do not compete with Google Play
Pay companies to preinstall Google Play on new devices
Require app makers to use Google Play Billing, or prohibit app makers from telling their users about cheaper online goods on their website (Google Play takes between 15% and 30% of i
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(WTF:) Google will also have to permit competing Android app stores to access Google Play’s catalog of apps
I *hope* that only means they have to list the competing app stores in the play store so they can install those stores, rather than some of the convoluted wording for it that I've seen in some of the previous case news (which made it sounds like they had to host the entire stores within their app store, rather than hosting an app that installs a competing store).
Require app makers to use Google Play Billing, or prohibit app makers from telling their users about cheaper online goods on their website (Google Play takes between 15% and 30% of in-app purchases as a fee from large app makers)
There was one aspect of their previous behavior that made sense to me, and I hope that's still the case in the fine print. That being, if an app is