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Another problem, AI allows many people to submit PRs that may look viable with very low effort. So you get a lot more code to review, often submitted by people who are not actually…

You mention nuance and good faith, but on your profile, and on your website, you claim to work on Android at Google. Previously on Google Play. I don't see that mentioned in your c…

I don't really understand your argument here, isn't Google's announcement also entirely one sided? I also don't see any "discussion" of disadvantages of their solution in their ann…

They then end up paying more by buying five awful low-range phones that each last a year instead of one mid-range that will last more. No, I would rather everyone paid more for a p…

Yet somehow they are not too dumb to get a driving license or operate a gas stove. I would argue that operating a car is much more complicated than operating a smartphone. At some …

I think Google is trying to solve the problem at the wrong level - people do not really understand their computing devices enough to understand the risks, they never had to learn o…

I do believe that. Pointing out that I live in the EU was completely unnecessary, I meant that I live somewhere in the EU, I didn't really mean to compare it to the US.

Why the snark? Did I misread? I don't often buy a new car, do you? I really don't understand what your last sentence means. I don't even think this a fair comparison, it's more lik…

How many people are gullible enough right now to plug a phone to a laptop over USB and execute an exe on an operating system with no sandboxing at all? ADB even seems to work over …

It was possible for many decades already, budget and maintenance-wise. You can at least accept a credit card as an alternative. Yes, it's not perfect, but the fully digital alterna…

Yes, I read the linked article. Yes, the city made this decision. The decision could be reverted. I understand that this is a type of thing the OP (top-comment in the thread) is wi…

What do you mean by impossible in this case? Can't you just have the coin-operated parking meters back? Where I live, in EU, parking meters even take cards. EDIT: I guess "just" is…

> because you are annoyed about some temporary problems I mean, all problems are temporary, time is money etc. etc. And there are signs that suggest that some of these problems (na…

> I'm arguing that a curation process that includes security review is likely to produce a more secure set of software I actually totally agree! There is no external entity users c…

> but that's what we have now, and it's not working. My entire point is that education is the opposite of what we have now. That users are not expected to understand or know anythi…

> how is a UI designed that doesn't fuel incompetence? I'm specifically talking about UX ("how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system, or service"), not necessaril…

Think about it the way you think about reading the fine print on agreements you sign. These can also have bad consequences. But I guess not reading the TOS is another wide problem,…

Sure, but I don't think decreasing chances of scam-by-app on Android by some minuscule amount is in any way comparable to prescription drugs.

I really don't think that's a cultural difference. I also grew up and live in the EU. What Google wants just does not solve the problem in any way. And it's also not actual regulat…

To add to that, I think it's important to point out that the problem of people not understanding how to safely use their devices is in big part caused by technology companies racin…

Assuming the owner gave the shop the pin. If so, the shop can already steal a lot of data from the phone. Why bother with persistent malware at this point? You already have to trus…

I don't find the laws unjust in any way. Apple did everything they could to take half of the smartphone market, and to me it's totally understandable that the EU government may wan…

Their rights to license stuff they sell should not be unlimited, that's the entire point. I understand that your second sentence refers to the fact, that the limitation is only in …

> I replied to someone else in the same vein but having had a garmin watch in the home there was nothing that it would have done better if it was able to work with Apple's propriet…

> Can't reference a leak or incident specifically, but when Foxconn (a massive company with 3/4 million employees) had workers jumping from their dormitories and installed "suicide…