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| ▲ | folmar 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| This ship has sailed, in the past Amazon's store did not succeed a lot, but there are already a few important enough offsprings:
* Huawei with separate store and no Gapps
* Samsung with importantly different browser and ton of extra features, also another store
* in China the app-in-wechat and similar are a major thing If you develop for a diverse set of user you need a lot of effort. |
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| ▲ | chasil 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Apps that run on the Kindle Fire can't use Google Mobile Services, and the Amazon appstore is missing many well-known titles. The Play Store is mostly absent from China, and I really don't know how that ecosystem works. Was there one ecosystem? |
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| ▲ | izacus 2 days ago | parent [-] | | You're too young to remember Symbian and Java phone ecosystem mess, are you? Or even Android of around 2.x era, where getting an app doesn't mean it works on your phone? | | |
| ▲ | chasil 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Oh, my sweet summer child, my first classroom exposure was CP/M. | | |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There already are multiple different android ecosystems today. For example Samsung has SDKs that have features when targeting their flavor of Android. There will still be a common base. |
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| ▲ | OutOfHere 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Developers aren't going to develop for five slightly-different ecosystems The point, perhaps, is for one to emerge as the prominent choice, the correct one. Diversity however has its own value. |
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| ▲ | palata 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I wish Android manufacturers contributed to AOSP, so that it would still be one ecosystem, but with shared ownership. But I guess it's more profitable for all of them to let Google do it on their own. And it sucks for the user, because we have to live with Google's decisions. | | |
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