That article isn’t saying anything I didn’t already know.
They’re making it more difficult to side-load; not impossible: The article explicitly acknowledges that Android must remain open and that sideloading must continue to exist.
F-Droid, Git, etc, are horrible places to obtain apps from. It’s in Android’s best interests to not make it easy or convenient. People won’t read a full proper warning like https://lemmy.world/post/48579911
It’s like the earlier scare on Android based TVs. They disable an app, but you can clone it anyway.
I’d only get from those sources things that Go ogle wouldn’t allow like PipePipe (even that I have no use for though).
This isn’t fake news https://keepandroidopen.org/
Try a conspiracy theorist forum. It’s fake news.
It is not https://developer.android.com/developer-verification
That article isn’t saying anything I didn’t already know.
They’re making it more difficult to side-load; not impossible: The article explicitly acknowledges that Android must remain open and that sideloading must continue to exist.
F-Droid, Git, etc, are horrible places to obtain apps from. It’s in Android’s best interests to not make it easy or convenient. People won’t read a full proper warning like https://lemmy.world/post/48579911
It’s like the earlier scare on Android based TVs. They disable an app, but you can clone it anyway.
I’d only get from those sources things that Go ogle wouldn’t allow like PipePipe (even that I have no use for though).