{"id":33768,"date":"2021-09-28T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33768"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:08:22","slug":"microsoft-store-supports-alternate-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/microsoft-store-supports-alternate-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Store Supports Alternate App Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/09\/28\/microsoft-store-alternate-app-store-support\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/09\/28\/microsoft-store-alternate-app-store-support\/\">\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsdeveloper\/2021\/09\/28\/microsoft-store-more-apps-more-open\/\">today announced<\/a> that it is opening up the Microsoft Store for Windows to third-party storefront apps, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/epic-games\/\">Epic Games<\/a> Store and the Amazon Appstore. Epic and Amazon's stores will be discoverable on the Microsoft Store for Windows and can be downloaded like any other app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Two major Apple competitors, Google and Microsoft, now support alternate app installation options on their platforms, something that could potentially sway regulators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/06\/11\/us-lawmakers-tech-antitrust-legislation\/\">working on antitrust legislation<\/a> in the United States and other countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/21\/app-store-fee-reductions-and-apple-strategy-tax\/\">App Store Fee Reductions and Apple Strategy Tax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/windows-11-windows-store-changes\/\">Windows 11: Windows Store Changes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/microsoft-app-store-lowers-fees\/\">Microsoft App Store Lowers Fees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"microsoft-store-supports-alternate-app-stores-update-2021-10-05\">Update (2021-10-05): <a href=\"https:\/\/take.surf\/2021\/09\/28\/yo-dawg-i-heard-you-liked-app-stores\">Jesper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/take.surf\/2021\/09\/28\/yo-dawg-i-heard-you-liked-app-stores\"><p>When I heard the original part of the Windows 11 announcement, I got the sense that the Microsoft Store would become either a store &ldquo;platform&rdquo;, where other people could host Microsoft Store-shaped objects or a browser, through which other stores could be federated. Making the separate stores available for download through their store itself (which is <em>mostly<\/em> what it all comes down to) is a reasonable way to cut this Gordian knot.<\/p><p>But here&rsquo;s the thing. Alternative Android stores, alternative Windows stores &mdash; they <em>already exist<\/em>. They have existed for years, the technical platform has existed for years, all issues have been ironed out or known for years, and the major tide has been closing an open system (for Android, &ldquo;anyone can do anything&rdquo;, for Windows, &ldquo;Microsoft can&rsquo;t build a regular application cooler than you can&rdquo; (literally)).<\/p><p>For Apple, the starting point is the complete opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Microsoft today announced that it is opening up the Microsoft Store for Windows to third-party storefront apps, including the Epic Games Store and the Amazon Appstore. Epic and Amazon's stores will be discoverable on the Microsoft Store for Windows and can be downloaded like any other app. [&#8230;] Two major Apple competitors, Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-09-28T19:16:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"3a44f756-908b-4ede-aa6a-ef5f5f3f218b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-10-05T19:08:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOkT3VpCLTt6qau9fXz8hiw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,1969,219,2099,864],"class_list":["post-33768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-epic","tag-windows","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-store"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33833,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions\/33833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}