Accrescent isn't the future

anonymous549:

I am not sure where this idea that people were calling it “the future” is from.

Graphene OS mainly.

faxe:

And that is great. PlayStore is the only reason left why I’m signed in to google on my GrapheneOS device, since aurora is too unreliable and I need some closed source apps. If there were more closed source apps on Accrescent in the future it might exactly fill the gap that f-Droid leaves with their FOSS only philosophy

I don’t see why mainstream apps would be present on Accrescent anyway. So it’s never (barring some very very unlikely very big state intervention) going to be the case that apps will be duplicated among many app stores.

What I am trying to say here is that Accresecent can’t replace the Play Store. So the risk is that it contains two types of apps:

• Good, privacy-respecting or user friendly apps
• user-hostile apps that just figure out being on an app store with few apps is great for growing.

So at the end of the day why would you use it? I don’t want an app store with crap, there is already the play store with it.

The whole point of the thread is to press they should have standards. Not necessarily open-source, but at a minimum you should be able to use apps in it fully without a Google Account and/or without being tracked.