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by djsumdog 3665 days ago
Apps stores are crippled excused for real package management. In the open world, you can import someone else's key and repository and install their packages. In Play/iOS/Windows you have a single provider. There's no bug tracker to add your packages and no way to add a stable and unstable channel..unless both apps are in the same store ...and every beta release then has to get approved.

It's maddening. I wrote a thing about it and other Android issues: http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/

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iOS and Windows Phone devices may be limited to a single package provider, but Android devices are not. I've had more than one store on my Android phones and tablets for over five years now. And, yes, I'd love it if there were a standard way to include signing keys for additional stores so that installations were seamless, that's not a significant problem in practice.
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