What alternative are you going to make? My bank only publishes their app on Play Store. I can either use Play Store app or Aurora to install it. You think that if you build alternative, open source store my bank will publish their app there? You think any bank will? F-Droid already exists, do you see any banks publishing their apps there? Do you see any of them dong Linux version of their apps?
The alternative here would be some other corporation building independent app store and getting everyone to publish their apps there. Amazon tried that many years ago. Maybe Samsung could do it now. It’s definitely not something we can make.
I don’t know about FOSS stores but banks have been known to make apps and publish them on alternate stores (Samsung, Huawei, Amazon) if there are enough users. Off the top of my head, Revolut and ING Turkey have apps on the Huawei app store right now.
IMO this needs a regulatory push. If the EU encourages or requests EU-based app stores with relevant twists (regional for example), they will appear, and Google will have to accept them, and the banks will put their apps there.
No app developer wants to deal with Google Play, it’s ass and a pain in the. If a company has a local audience (like a national bank) and they get a store that caters specifically to that country and it’s easier to publish (and cheaper) than Google Play, they will use it.
Local stores don’t have to accept all apps, either. They can be regulated stores that are only open to certain entities in that country like banks, government apps, telecom, utility, public transport etc. That would take care of the most immediate needs for their citizens and liberate those from Google’s control.
I was in the same situation, but I slowly started to get rid of android/ios only services. Now my new bank offers every service on their web page + it has very convenient REST API where I can monitor my account.
Thats why we need an alternative.someone, some company, anyone that can make software that dosent rely on Google just to work.
Its crazy that even in the degoogle world, we still have to rely on Google. if the whole point is to not use Google, then what’s the point? We should have our stand alone apps should we not? We can’t make them but someone our there can.
We should have our stand alone apps should we not?
We should but I’m afraid that ship has sailed and without EU’s intervention it’s not going to change. I was trying to buy a train ticket recently and the app for local train requires Google account now. It will just keep getting worse and more and more apps will rely on Google services and require play services and google accounts. This will not be solved by open source apps. Legal solution is required.
What alternative are you going to make? My bank only publishes their app on Play Store. I can either use Play Store app or Aurora to install it. You think that if you build alternative, open source store my bank will publish their app there? You think any bank will? F-Droid already exists, do you see any banks publishing their apps there? Do you see any of them dong Linux version of their apps?
The alternative here would be some other corporation building independent app store and getting everyone to publish their apps there. Amazon tried that many years ago. Maybe Samsung could do it now. It’s definitely not something we can make.
I don’t know about FOSS stores but banks have been known to make apps and publish them on alternate stores (Samsung, Huawei, Amazon) if there are enough users. Off the top of my head, Revolut and ING Turkey have apps on the Huawei app store right now.
IMO this needs a regulatory push. If the EU encourages or requests EU-based app stores with relevant twists (regional for example), they will appear, and Google will have to accept them, and the banks will put their apps there.
No app developer wants to deal with Google Play, it’s ass and a pain in the. If a company has a local audience (like a national bank) and they get a store that caters specifically to that country and it’s easier to publish (and cheaper) than Google Play, they will use it.
Local stores don’t have to accept all apps, either. They can be regulated stores that are only open to certain entities in that country like banks, government apps, telecom, utility, public transport etc. That would take care of the most immediate needs for their citizens and liberate those from Google’s control.
I was in the same situation, but I slowly started to get rid of android/ios only services. Now my new bank offers every service on their web page + it has very convenient REST API where I can monitor my account.
Thats why we need an alternative.someone, some company, anyone that can make software that dosent rely on Google just to work.
Its crazy that even in the degoogle world, we still have to rely on Google. if the whole point is to not use Google, then what’s the point? We should have our stand alone apps should we not? We can’t make them but someone our there can.
We should but I’m afraid that ship has sailed and without EU’s intervention it’s not going to change. I was trying to buy a train ticket recently and the app for local train requires Google account now. It will just keep getting worse and more and more apps will rely on Google services and require play services and google accounts. This will not be solved by open source apps. Legal solution is required.