[rymate1234]

Unironically there should be alternatives for those platforms, and the Switch

[ifmpx]

I'd include walmart too if walmart is the only store I'm ever allowed to shop at.

[sjwright]

Apple doesn’t force you to own an iPhone.

[dtech]

It does force you to use their app store for 2-7 years once you bought one until you replace it.

[0-O-0]

It doesn't. You're free to replace it and switch to android (or better - linux) at any moment.

[thewhitetulip]

In a world where walmart is the only store & it bans all other retail stores from existing, Walmart will become monopoly.

This is false equivalence

[danity]

What do you call the Play Store? What do you call Android? Talk about false equivalence, you’ve just demonstrated that.

[thewhitetulip]

1.I have installed LineageOS which has 0 apps from Gogle

2. I have installed android apps from F_-droid/Samsung app store or even Vivo app store

3. I have directly installed apks which didn't appear on play store directly from the internet

Where is my false equivalence? Pray tell me?

Google makes it impossible for apps to run without play store but I've used 0 google apps on android for 1yr and lived easily with 0 issues

Remove apple's app store, I dare you and then tell me you can live for one year.

Apple has monopoly on app store.

Walmart can't be compared.

Google has technically enforced monopoly and which I oppose. I never said google play store isn't a monopoly.

Are you sure you know what false equivalence means?

[donor20]

Dude, you don't need to buy an iphone, you don't need to by an xbox, you don't need to buy a playstation - if you do though you will be using their stores / they will be getting a cut.

[willtim]

The Play Store has very little for tablets. The Android tablet market is effectively dead.