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You lament Google's dominance of the web platform while listing F-droid? Google's dominance is unfortunate, but their support for the web has been vital in kee

You lament Google's dominance of the web platform while listing F-droid? Google's dominance is unfortunate, but their support for the web has been vital in keeping it (sort of) competitive with the proprietary platforms, including their own. Google does this for financial reasons, of course, but it is still a good thing. And the web is still the only major client platform we have. We can still successfully object when Google promotes changes that are not in the platform's interest. Look how often Mozilla has thwarted Google proposals for the web, like their vision of webasm or web components.

dijit 4y ago
> You lament Google's dominance of the web platform while listing F-droid? pardon my ignorance, I don't personally use an Android phone, my understanding was that f-droid was essentially a FOSS app-store, built in order to solve distribution for non-playstore .apk's. I thought it wasn't a store that was in any way controversial on the android ecosystem.
- tomComb 4y ago
  Yes, that is all correct. It is a good thing, but it is not a platform, it is an App Store for a mostly open source but still proprietary platform owned by Google.