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It’d be kinda nice to see this pass, though I don’t know what effect this would even have on Google? Aren’t you free to install FDroid or anything else?
by beezischillin 5y ago
It’d be kinda nice to see this pass, though I don’t know what effect this would even have on Google? Aren’t you free to install FDroid or anything else?
- Larrikin 5y agoI envision a choice of stores on user setup, no need to enable and go into developer settings to install outside apps, an opening up of APIs related to push notifications and allowing auto updating of apps installed outside the Play Store. In a perfect world a locking down of SafetyNet or a complete rework of the concept so having a rooted phone doesn't disable a ton of apps.
- Mindwipe 5y agoGoogle are planning to force all apps in Google Play to use Google Play billing, same as Apple do. This bill would prohibit that. Whichever dunderhead at Google thought it would be a good idea to introduce this measure this year in the current regulatory environment is... not the brightest spark.
- beezischillin 5y agoThat's very unfortunate. Sounds like it'll affect the Epic lawsuit, too, in all sorts of unexpected ways. I'm really curious to see what happens to this bill since this is such a strange time in history that it has a chance of passing, though I have my doubts, despite that I'd love to see it do so.