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1. wccrawford · 1790423567 · focus · HN ↗

   15% is a lot. I'm not trying to say it isn't.

   And they're annoying and often screw up the review process.

   Google is always going to make money off any work they do. That's just business. They're not going to put more money towards better reviews without taking more money. And without the reviews, even as crappy as they are, a lot of really crappy software would be on the store. And a lot more would be actively malicious

   And you were making like 7x as much as they were taking. Without them, you would even get noticed and you'd have made nothing.

   We know this because almost nobody installs FDroid, and the other stores like Samsung make basically nothing for developers, even though they're preinstalled on so many devices.

   1. vachina · 1790430451 · focus · HN ↗

      There’s Huawei App Gallery but it is to the West a product of a commie so it needed to be suppressed and snuffed.

      1. daneel_w · 1790464180 · focus · HN ↗

         No, it's because Huawei assists the CCP in conducting systemic espionage on the West.

         1. vachina · 1790522624 · focus · HN ↗

            Pot calling kettle black

            1. daneel_w · 1790523617 · focus · HN ↗

               European countries shouldn't have to answer for what the USA has been up to the past half century. Your reflexive whataboutism doesn't change anything about the reality of why the West must do everything it can to reject Huawei, Xiaomi, ZTE etc.

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