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Probably because they require APIs which cannot be used when publishing to the AppStore. The whole Microsoft Office Suite is available in the macOS App Store - but Microsoft Teams must be downloaded from their website and cannot be installed via the AppStore...


> Probably because they require APIs which cannot be used when publishing to the AppStore

That's the funny part.

They do stuff they want to prohibit to other developers because "safety".

But we all know that Google can do massively more harm than scammers pushing their scammy apps to a few hundreds people.

For example, in today's news "Google hit with EU antitrust investigation into its spam policy".

There's a bit of irony in it and a lot of hypocrisy, IMO.




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