- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.
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There dies the last remaining reason to use Android.
And use what instead?
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Or, said in the common corporate tongue, “embrace, extend, extinguish”.
If it starts for real, the freedom of Android is lost.
We need to sue them 1000 times and more before they can even start this.
I’ll register an account and share my signing cert for y’all to use. I don’t care.
Why am I using an Android device then? Also how would this even work with open source apps that people build from source?
and just like that google expands their walled garden and becomes apple 2
remember when the internet was an open platform and computers were yours to run programs you wanted?
How are they going to enforce this? Is side loading getting some extra signing step only Google can provide?
I shouldn’t need to go through Google at all to release an Android app if it’s not on their store. This is bullshit
Any device with Google Play services will enforce this. Any device that does not have Google Apps and services will not enforce this.
In this case, China actually has a leg up over the West because they haven’t had Google Play services for a long time.
Didn’t realize the device in my pocket was google’s
“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.”
- Richard M. Stallman
You are going to learn.
Verify my balls, Google.
if you’ve ever sent a nude, they probably can.
