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grishkalast Thursday at 10:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Android has about 2/3 worldwide market share and it hasn't had anything like this before. Many people, myself included, chose it exactly because it allows the installation of modded, pirated, or otherwise non-store-worthy apps.


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zadikianlast Thursday at 11:06 PM

The 2/3 marketshare must be almost entirely due to Android being cheap and accessible, not because those people need to install arbitrary software. A lot of mobile plans don't even give you GB/mo, they give WhatsApp messages/mo.

Not saying that this is right on principle.

tonyedgecombeyesterday at 6:41 AM

>Many people

But also a tiny percentage of the whole.