What are your thoughts on alternative playstores?

Question

There's plenty of alternative PlayStore in the market right now. APKPure, Aptoide, APKMonk...

What are your thoughts on them? Are they a threat to PlayStore? Should they be banned?

marco sarli · Answer

They have their use. What is useless is to ban something. It will pop up again with a different name very quickly

shairazibtc · Answer

oh yes, this. It has come to a point where there is no real reason to ban certain apps.

James Watson · Answer

I think they are a useful addition to Google Play Store because Google Play is unavailable on some Android devices for some reasons. In addition, sometimes some historical version of an app is actually necessary.

They should not be banned as long as their source of apk files is legitimate and they are operating legally.

Bradley_H14 · Answer

Banning them doesn't fix anything, having alternatives is always good and what people strive for. And I doubt the PlayStore has much to suffer either way.

marco sarli · Answer

I use a couple of old apps that are not anymore on Google and when I recently changed phone I found them on an alternative store.

shairazibtc · Answer

Agreed with your statement. Gotta be careful when downloading apps through these sites. But thankfully there are a couple out there which is reputable and safe.

MichaelJohnny · Answer

Play store is actually a central market where every apps are available so there is no alternative.

shairazibtc · Answer

hmm...
Currently, there's plenty of Play Store alternatives though. 

Apkpure, apkmirror, apkmonk, MovaStore, etc...

leonardwulf · Answer

there you can find earlier versions of the apps that you need, so that they have some benefit

josaflenya · Answer

Nice alternatives.

Tom Tommsen · Answer

I think that Play store is actually a central market. Don't need more markets

kate alexa · Answer

Nice post

denchikchyb · Answer

I think there's nothing better than the original.