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[-] beefcat@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the play store, like other download stores, provides discoverability, trust, and all the infrastructure to distribute and automatically update your software products.

this is not a worthless service, otherwise publishers wouldn’t have flocked to Steam on Windows in the late ‘00s/early ‘10s. only the very biggest ones like EA and Ubisoft felt like they could make more money by rolling their own.

this doesn’t justify using anticompetitive practices to maintain your market position, but there is real value being provided there.

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