Of course they will. It started with Play Integrity and hardware remote attestation. Soon Android will be nothing but a shittier version of iOS.
Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
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Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#223How does this affect installing an APK to an offline device?
Will there be a local override?
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#225This doesn't seem to be going over well.
Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#226This is the final nail in the coffin for personal computing
Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#227I cannot resist the urge to point out that we wouldn't have had this problem if people actually sticked to free software instead of "commercial use friendly" open source licensing
In practice we see the reverse and GPL projects being rewritten as more permissive.
The busybox/toybox case looks especially relevant and interesting:
> In January 2012 the proposal of creating a BSD license alternative to the GPL licensed BusyBox project drew harsh criticism (…). Rob Landley, who had started the BusyBox-based lawsuits, responded that this was intentional, explaining that the lawsuits had not benefited the project but that they had led to corporate avoidance, expressing a desire to stop the lawsuits "in whatever way I see fit".
Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#228Well I guess that's good bye Pixel and Android for me then.
Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#229"A recent analysis by the company found that there are “over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.”
Ok, but what's the real damage? In other words, how many installs and how much money siphoned from users and legit apps?
Re: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
#230Well that sucks. So basically all the money weve had taken from us for our play store apps is now "just" going to be spent on administering the registration details of 800 million chinese developers and 6 billion bot accounts.
Whose smart idea was that.