First, only Apple devices have the issue of limited store access, which is a tangential antitrust problem unto itself.
Second, despite the claims of the president, the white house does not have the power to block TikTok or Bytedance from the public. The president can only block armed forces from installing apps on their owned devices.
The Epic Games store and Fortnite is precisely the counterexample to anyone saying there's a single store on Android devices.
Whatever sweetheart deal Epic worked out with Google in the end doesn't discredit that they successfully sold hundreds of thousands of copies outside of the the Google Play store.
This argument also intentionally ignores the existence of the Amazon app store on Android.
> Whatever sweetheart deal Epic worked out with Google in the end doesn't discredit that they successfully sold hundreds of thousands of copies outside of the the Google Play store.
They specifically state that they failed due to the constraints and had to back to the store.
> This argument also intentionally ignores the existence of the Amazon app store on Android.
Yeah sure, there's a few other minor stores but they are nowhere near the size of the Play Store.
Additionally we could compare to other markets, if you compare the number of companies which can host your website and the number of companies which can host your app, the numbers are going from hundreds of thousands to less than 10 for apps even by counting almost irrelevant stores.
Second, despite the claims of the president, the white house does not have the power to block TikTok or Bytedance from the public. The president can only block armed forces from installing apps on their owned devices.