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What is unreasonable about showing people there's another interface to access all the apps in the Google Play Store, where you can download and use all of them
by smeej 3y ago
What is unreasonable about showing people there's another interface to access all the apps in the Google Play Store, where you can download and use all of them without signing into a Google account?
- aembleton 3y agoBecause Google could flip a switch and stop that at any moment. There is a systemic problem with how society is becoming more and more reliant upon a few large tech firms. Work arounds will work whilst they're small enough and fly under the radar, but if they get larger they'll be stopped by the holders of the binaries.
- rex_gallorum2 3y agoWe're increasingly like animals that become dependent on a single source of food or a single watering hole. It's really risky. You could hardly design more fragile systems (or business models) that depend in these very narrow bottlenecks.
- smeej 3y agoSo we should...submit to the binary already, in case the binary closes the loophole? How is that a solution?