[chungus_khan]

Then keep using the curated store? It only hurts if Apple's store can't compete with alternative ones. There's no such problem on Android because developers and users are fine with the Play Store.

Epic even tried doing a sideloaded Fortnite for Android and people didn't download it, so they came back.

[zepto]

This keeps getting repeated but is false.

New stores will pay for exclusives rights to popular apps just as video streaming platforms do for video.

Users will have no choice but to use a jumble of different stores.

[chungus_khan]

Then why hasn't it happened? Android has always had sideloading and this is not the case. Just asserting it to be false isn't convincing.

[zepto]

Why doesn’t Epic have an Android App Store?

If they want an independent store, there is no reason for them not to create one for Android.

If Android was a model for what Epic wants, they would have built a store there.

It’s pretty obvious that this is just about them going where the money is.

[chungus_khan]

As I said, they tried and failed because nobody downloaded it. I'm not sure why you're suddenly bringing Epic's motives into a comment chain about the desirability of sideloading though? Epic is obviously looking to skirt store fees and doesn't actually prefer to run their own store, but that has nothing to do with anything above in the chain.

[zepto]

The post is about Epic.

Do you think anyone would install alternative stores on iOS?

If so, Android is obviously an irrelevant comparison.

Epic clearly believes iOS is different from Android.

[chungus_khan]

I don't think most people would. I think most sideloading would be by users making things that fall outside of what Apple allows on their store, like on Android. I see no coherent reason at all why things would be any different on iOS, and nobody has presented one here beyond just asserting the premise that it would be different, and I don't think "Epic believes it is" is a convincing argument.