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Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#2... as an open platform. Android as a mobile and home device OS is approaching 4 billion.
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#3Bad title. It should read "Android Developer Verification" or something similar.
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#4... as an open platform. Android as a mobile and home device OS is approaching 4 billion.
Hackers will be concerned with the open platform.
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#5more the end of google certified android phones:
https://www.republicworld.com/tech/lineageos-rejects-googles...
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#6I lost a lot of sympathy for these campaigns when they started to use hyperbole.
ADV is not a virus, nor a trojan horse.
> killing the ability to install your own software on your phone
But you can still install whatever you want over ADB...
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#7Bad title. It should read "Android Developer Verification" or something similar.
It's Holwerda's typical absolutist, extreme take.
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#8I lost a lot of sympathy for these campaigns when they started to use hyperbole. ADV is not a virus, nor a trojan horse. > killing the ability to install your own software on your phone But you can still install whatever you want over ADB...
By definition Google Mobile Services are a rootkit and have always been, not only since ADV...
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#9I lost a lot of sympathy for these campaigns when they started to use hyperbole. ADV is not a virus, nor a trojan horse. > killing the ability to install your own software on your phone But you can still install whatever you want over ADB...
> But you can still install whatever you want over ADB...
...if you wait 24 hours.
And also thanks to the new Google Play attestation API a lot of apps won't even work on alternative Android OS'es. But that's all needed in the name of security. Never mind if your Samsung Galaxy phone is EOL and hasn't been receiving updates for 4 years anymore. It still works with the attestation API. But the fully updated GrapheneOS phone is a real security hazard apparently, so it won't work with it.
So no, you can't just run everything you want via side-loading. It's pretty obvious Google is making a power play to curb down on everything that isn't going via Google Play.
Re: Android is almost dead – OSnews
#10more the end of google certified android phones: https://www.republicworld.com/tech/lineageos-rejects-googles...
I never thought I’d need to go back to custom ROMs, but here we are.