• ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First China has 1.4 billion people. It’s the biggest market for anything, including Android.

    Second, every parallel appstore weakens Google’s monopoly.

    Third, it’s not hard to develop an Appstore. The difficult part is to get people to use it. Bans are very effective in moving people to a new appstore :)

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      1 year ago

      What does China having 1.4 billion people mean to Google? nothing, because they have chosen not to do business in that country. So the argument is moot. Even people in China who use VPN, install Google Play store on their phone to access banned apps in China. BTW there are 3 billion 30 day active android phones with Google Play. If you take biggest Android appstore in China it doesn’t even have 500 million 30 day active users.