Not to editorialize, but I think this is kind of a crazy article. Sharing for the laughs and the discussuon.
It seems to read an article from an alternate universe. Neo store and droidify can already automatically update third party apps from years ago, just give the permission once per app.
Don’t like the automatic update? Disable it in the setting pretending to be Angelina Jolie’s character in Hackers. The third party app store didn’t allow to disable automatic updates? Just uninstall it and get a new one.
For example, when neo store forced the user to give the permission to stay always loaded in memory to check for updates all the time, first I checked GitHub to see if it was a bug. When I saw it was a deliberate choice from the dev and that they were unwilling to reverse it, I just uninstalled and move on. There’s choice.
Freemium games would never redirect the user to their website for saving some fees because:
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Friction. As a play store IAP a whale can buy $50 in useless game coins with just a scan of the fingerprint. Otherise open the browser, create an account, type billing address, type cc numbers, get the otp… insane bounce rate that’s higher than the fees
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Chargebacks. Nobody does chargebacks against Google because they would nuke your Google account for fraud and that is a disaster. But a chargeback on an idle clicker where you’re already bored that bears no conseguences? Oh yes!
