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Why is there no sensible behaviour and knowledge around APK installation like there is about any piece of software on a personal computer?
Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
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#52Google is really turning into a dystopian company, destroying any goodwill their virtuous employees created in the past. It feels like they are primed to be the main turnkey tyranny facilitators.
Google was always dystopian and evil. They just wore good mask for some time in the beginning.
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#54Juggling between Maemo and iOS back in the day I always thought it was so wild that I later years people thought of Android as the open alternative.
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#55if we continue this direction, in a couple of years, a feature phone might be an excellent choice!
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#56This isn't legal in the EU is it?
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#57Hopefully this increases the communal pressure to find a real alternative to android.
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#58The article didn't say much about the account approval process, but from the looks of it Google will be able to arbitrarily accept and revoke applications as they see fit. So much for an open platform, bring forth the gatekeeping!
Personally I would be fine with unsigned apps requiring the user to click through a notice before install, or having a setting to toggle to enable unsigned apps. Windows does something similar to this where unsigned binaries get a pop up warning but signed ones are executed immediately.
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#59Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.
Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(
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#60This is the worst thing to happen to technology in recent times since there is only two major phone OS's.
It isn't possible to ban encryption, so the governments have to chip away at security and privacy using these techniques.
From: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification
"You may also need to upload official government ID."
This won't end well for Google or the governments involved when the people get so angry that they are forced to roll this back. Switch to an alternative phone OS.