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Comment by Karunamon | Hacker News Reader

  especially with multiple app stores

I hope you're not seriously saying that having multiple app stores is a weakness of some kind.

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It is when vendors lock out the public app store in favor of their own (Kindle Fire).

Yes I am.

Huh. Where I come from, people having a choice as to where they can get their apps is a Good Thing©. Care to elaborate why you think it's so bad?

Choice? Some vendors lock you in allowing you to use only their app store.

In a word: fragmentation. Just look at what Amazon have done with the Fire. Separate branch of Android with a separate app store. Same thing happening to webOS would be bad news.

The problem is not having 2 or more app stores, the problem is having 2 or more app stores that are mutually exclusive.

Is there an example of two or more app stores that are not?

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