In AppCenter we now show a simple percentage-based app rating when ratings are available from ODRS—the same ratings server used by apps like GNOME Software. When developers provide screenshots for multiple platforms, we now show you the ones intended for elementary OS. We’ve added support for app addons, and we now show when a game supports playing with controllers

#AppCenter #Flatpak

You should be able to use the apps and app stores that you trust without any gate keeping from your operating system. That’s a big part of why we chose to build our app store on @FlatpakApps

#Flatpak #AppCenter

@machinesbleedtoo not only that, but @EUCommission actively #sabotaged any #domestic (#EU) competitiors with backfiring ideas, like demanding that #AppStores pay #VAT in the buyers' nation without having EU-wide infrastructure to make this even possible.

• Basically making an #AntiGAFAM - legislation only be complyable by the #GAFAMs unless one wants to blow all revenue for #bureaucracy and yeet the #SingleMarket!

Competitiors like #AndroidPit #AppCenter got killed by that.
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/important-announcement:-androidpit-app-center-to-close/

Whereas in #China there's still some competition, but #Huawei's #AppGallery demanding a 50% cut before taxes for #Games makes #Steam look like a saint!

@dec_hl I think something like an #App #curator site that allows #filtering / has said filters set by default as a "#SafeSearch" would be propably best...

• The core problem is that since there's no #affiliate program woth #Apple's #AppStore nor #GooglePlay and @EUCommission having killed competitiors to the latter like #AndroidPit #AppCenter with #VAT shite, there is no ethical way to monetize it once it exceeds the average #WebHoster's "unlimited traffic" plans...

Not to mention it'll get #downranked and #shadowbanned from both platfirms pretty quickly.