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Can the same functionality be accomplished with mobile web?
Apple is working hard to make sure the answer is no (by not implementing advanced PWA APIs in WebKit and by not allowing other browser engines on iOS).
As soon as incentives start to diverge, centralized app stores look less benevolent.
Which is why people going back and forth about incentives has always driven me nuts. Attempting to make assurances based on this handle we crank called "human incentive" that may map to human behavior in the expected direction, the opposite direction, or no direction at all, is madness! We don't know. Humans are unsolved. Give me guarantees, or the closest approximation. Federation, distribution, dispersion of author…
What’s the incentive?
Why are people so obsessed about apps. could be a website that couldn’t easily be taken down.
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Google disputes that: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-...
For clarity, they're requiring apps to be signed by a verified developer on certified Android devices. You can still side load, but the verification is still required for the side loaded apps.
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Surely an app designed to help circumvent the law is a bad thing, even if it doesn't make one legally a criminal merely by association?
Only if subjectively cherry picking. VPN apps "help circumvent the law", I wouldn't call them a bad thing
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Take a breath. Obama drone-struck and killed more than one American citizen. Biden's rhetoric against his political opponents was no less "fascist" than Trump's. Do you find yourself nostalgic for the civility of the McCain-era Republicans? He was called a Nazi by his detractors, as well. Trump doesn't hold a candle to FDR when it comes to being an authoritarian.
Can you point to any speeches that Biden gave, that talk about sending troops to republican majority cities?
> Trump doesn't hold a candle to FDR when it comes to being an authoritarian
He holds a lighthouse.
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Take a breath. Obama drone-struck and killed more than one American citizen. Biden's rhetoric against his political opponents was no less "fascist" than Trump's. Do you find yourself nostalgic for the civility of the McCain-era Republicans? He was called a Nazi by his detractors, as well. Trump doesn't hold a candle to FDR when it comes to being an authoritarian.
Let’s not forget you also need to list times that he fired DAs for not going after his “enemies” and installed his personal attorney with no courtroom experience.
Or when he told a private company - in this case Microsoft - to fire someone he didn’t like. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5528090-trump-d...
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Why is that a bad thing? Was the Underground Railroad a bad thing?
In a society with rule of law, it is generally understood that adhering to laws, even ones you don't personally like, is a good thing; and that it would be a bad thing to pick and choose which laws to follow and enforce. I suppose you're making the argument that current US immigration law is unjust and immoral to begin with and therefore should be actively circumvented?
Immigration is a veneer around "grab whoever we want with no due process".