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Do people not remember the days of viruses destroying computers? They were a massive issue before, and now they're barely a thought for most people. These review processes have been good for the general population.
What review processes on computers?
Our app includes Android Auto, which I think is what causes it for us. Submitted 4 Sept, still in review. Was only 48-72 hours until this year, where it randomly jumped to 2 weeks or longer like it still is. It's really frustrating, and makes it very difficult to develop with, let alone reliably release features across platforms.
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We already had enough proof of vulnerabilities in the OS code and Manufacturers (eg. Samsung/Lenovo/etc privileged apps), there were enough reviewed apps that were used for fraud or access as bad actors. My banking works in my 'unprotected' computer browser. So I'd expect giving anyone equivalent freedom. I don't mind if there's a default for gate-keepers as long as they allow competition. but I would expect to have…
Do people not remember the days of viruses destroying computers? They were a massive issue before, and now they're barely a thought for most people. These review processes have been good for the general population.
And I'm sure everyone remembers ransomware.
No one is saying OS shouldn't have security measures, permissions/entitlements and app sandboxing, user land, etc.
I still don't understand why my desktop/laptop is allowed to be 'owned' by me. but my iPhone is a closed-gardened where I'm just a guest in a device I own. and that's nearly what Google is now doing.
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IMO in that case its their own fault. After all they have free will and can use it against their own good if they so choose. Let them get pwned a few times and see if they learn.
that's so dumb on so many levels... should we strip cars from active safety measures and let drivers who are not super good at driving just kill themselves on the road?
I just pulled a PWA app off the app store and I am going to keep it a pure PWA. It's installable, offline-first. I know I feel like I'm swimming against the current but I would love people to try to push for awareness of PWA installs more.
It allows the users to discover my web app through the Google Play Store. My app was also available as a PWA but I mostly push the TWA currently.
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If you don't agree with a decision made by your government, you can vote for someone else next time. If you don't agree with a decision made by Google, what do you do?
The people I vote for never win. Am I really any more empowered with the government than I am with Google? At least with Google I can de-google my life (with some significant losses of convenience, but it is doable)
If you're banned from Google? Good luck, you're fucked.
My tool is used by 1 million people a day https://www.photopea.com This is the reason I never made a mobile version and all mobile users use it in a browser. The biggest problem (bug) with this approach is that iOS limits the RAM usage to 2 GB per website. I have to tell many of my users to ditch their $1000 iPads and get a used $150 Macbook for better experience. I think Apple does it on purpose https://bugs.webkit.…
I'm not familiar with this space (new to Android), could someone explain why there hasn't been additional "app stores" appear that people can use?
A new era for choice and openness : https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-...
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You shouldn't have shipped that bug in the first place, I would say. If the bug comes from an Android update, I assume that developers have had access to betas long before the system update is rolled out.
Why do you think apple has point releases that fix... Bugs every time? Not necessarily new features but bugs. Lesson in there.