The era of mandatory sideloading for alternative Android marketplaces is officially over in the US.
As of this week, Portugal-based Aptoide has become the first third-party app store available for direct download through Google Play, marking a seismic shift in how Android users can access software and a direct consequence of the antitrust war waged by Fortnite creator Epic Games.
Aptoide offers more than 400,000 Android applications and serves about 25 million monthly active users. The company said the move removes a major barrier that previously limited its growth in the US market, where users had to manually install the store outside Google…
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