They could (and probably have) tried to get to where apple is with its app store on macos/ios.
They did.
The Windows 10/11 "S Mode" only allows installing software through the Windows store. It was mostly relegated to OEM installs for cheap x86 and ARM laptops, thankfully.
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Meta said that "it is required to offer a free, reduced-ad service that leads to poorer outcomes for users, advertisers, and platforms."
Oh, fuck off. Targeted advertisements don't help users with anything other than spending money on things they don't need. They lived perfectly fine before seeing the ad, they don't need what it's trying to peddle.
The only poorer outcomes are for Meta and their advertisers. Don't try and frame this as though it would hurt actual people, Meta.
It's actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.
Isn't it kind of ableist to assume that when somebody says they are "not able to physically do" a job, that they're lazy or classist? For all we know, they could have mobility issues or be unable to do sustained manual labor.
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That makes much more sense now.
Yeah, I agree with you on that.
If discoverability was better, I'm sure Android would get way more ports of good games. With the way it is right now with shovelware and Google pushing microtransaction-riddled crap over one time purchase games, though, it's treated as a second-class platform because it's not nearly as profitable as other platforms.
Which part of my comment was denigrating indie devs? Indie games are great. Android gaming is currently not.
If I'm looking for a good non-mobile game, I don't go looking in the mobile game store. I go looking on PSN or PC, where the focus is on the kind of game that wasn't designed as a phone-first experience.
The fact that Android has some good traditional games or ports of indie gems isn't something inherent to Android. The overwhelming majority of those games were on PC or console first.
Oh, there's no doubt about that. I'm not disagreeing that Android has some good-looking games. The problem is that games like GRID Legends Mobile are the exception, not the rule.
The Switch is crap, yes.
The Play Store is also overwhelmingly crap, though.
If you exclude all of the mobile games from both stores, the Switch simply has a better catalog of games.
You're comparing apples to oranges.
The mobile gaming market is leagues larger than every other market combined. That doesn't mean the games are even remotely comparable to console games.
It's an entirely different target audience. Mobile games are focused on quick sessions and design patterns designed to encourage spending money on microtransactions. Games made for the traditional gaming market are mostly designed for longer play sessions with more mechanically complex gameplay. I as well as many others prefer the latter.
Nintendo's store is full of shovelware, but at least you'll find more traditional games than just ports of indie hits. Or, buy a Steam Deck and enjoy something better than both.
The OP is really blowing smoke up Android's ass when it comes to the quality of native Android games. Most "top" mobile games are freemium crap riddled with microtransactions.
What it does have, however, is emulators. Including one for the Switch itself. Paying $350 for decade-old hardware and $80 for games is just bad value compared to a $300 used S21 and $0 games.
Once one company gets away with it, the rest follow.
An ad that showed up as I was browsing through the news. Bloody ridiculous...
I think the only way this could be any stupider is if she said it has cameras under the screen looking for where your fingers go.