[mvdtnz]

"Stop tending someone else's garden" doesn't mean "build exactly what you were building before, but on the web". It means, stop adding value to Google's platform when they don't care about you, and start building something you control.

We have been hearing this exact story for well over a decade now. I have absolutely no time or sympathy for people who continue to tend Google's (or Apple's or Microsoft's or Slack's or Stripe's etc) garden and get bitten.

[goku12]

The value of the playstore or appstore doesn't come from the apps on it. It comes from the fact that it is bundled with every single device running the corresponding OS. Any app that wants to be successful has to be on them. Even OEM app stores aren't that widely used. And web apps are often not a choice since some functionality are not exposed to them. So the other comment is still valid.

If we want these companies from abusing their dominance, they have to be either penalized heavily and forced to compensate the victims, or it should be mandated that these devices bundle a trustworthy 3rd party store.

[accoil]

I guess PureOS is one way of solving the problem of large log files taking too much space in Android.