F-Droid?
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
Valve didn’t expand Steam into Linux to gain market share in a new market, Valve did it because it is a hedge in case Windows becomes toxic to Steam. There is now a fallback position if Steam is locked out of Windows, and I expect Valve to continue to build in this position.
As for Android, there isn’t a successful second app store that isn’t tied to hardware; even Amazon quit Android. I don’t think Valve sees Android expansion as commercialy viable.
Earflap@reddthat.com 3 days ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
F-Droid’s market share is a rounding error compared to Google’s. Just because another app store exists doesn’t mean there is significant competition between app stores.
Earflap@reddthat.com 3 days ago
That’s not what you said though. You said there is no successful second app store and that’s demonstrably untrue. Just because it isn’t widely used doesn’t mean it can’t be.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
For a company like Valve, they are going to need greater adoption than what F-Droid has to be viable.
And I didn’t say that a successful app store was impossible, just improbable enough that it doesn’t justify investing in Android and that previous failures show how hard this is. Valve is still a for profit company and will make decisions to make money.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
That’s also not what they said. They said there’s no successful second app store that isn’t tied to hardware, which is true. F-Droid exists, but by no metric would it be considered seriously by anyone as a successful competitor to Google. And if there is somebody who thinks that, then you should give me their number, I have this investment idea that is guaranteed to give double or even triple returns, all I need is a seed investment of, say, $20k.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 days ago
You said there is no successful second app store
it isn’t widely used
So, it’s not successful, but it could be. So they were in fact correct that it’s not successful.
I use fdroid, so I know exactly how badly administered it is compared to Play. There are apps that haven’t gotten updated in months or years, despite the app on Play or Github being much newer. There are typo-squatting apps, and apps uploaded by people who do not own or manage those programs. It’s a wild west experience, and the average android phone user isn’t going to know enough to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Valve would be better off doing their own android offshoot OS.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
Valve didn’t expand Steam into Linux to gain market share in a new market
…I didn’t say anything about Linux?
there isn’t a successful second app store that isn’t tied to hardware
That doesn’t mean there couldn’t be.
even Amazon quit Android
Well everything I’ve read about Amazon indicates that it was atrocious for everyone so that’s unsurprising.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
Bro why are you being so argumentative? Person gave you a well thought out response, wasn’t even a tone to him but you fire back like he just insulted a core belief
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
Bro why are you being so argumentative?
What are you talking about? Do you expect me to just reply to everyone who provides a response “Yes, you’re correct” and move on?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
If that is what you’re intending then it is not coming off that way.
luciole@beehaw.org 3 days ago
(A few days ago I skimmed a super cool post about Steam’s relationship with Linux that says what you’re saying and now I want to give it a thorough read but I can’t find it bee sob emoji. If anyone remembers and has a link to it I’d be super happy bee laugh sweat emoji)
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 days ago
Do you mean this article? thelibre.news/on-the-history-of-valve-and-linux/
luciole@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Yes yes that’s it! I’m happy now ~ thanks!