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> I don't believe it's any kind of conspiracy to make life hard for open source apps. This is an odd framing of something that generates revenue & provides val
by lucideer 3y ago
> I don't believe it's any kind of conspiracy to make life hard for open source apps.
This is an odd framing of something that generates revenue & provides valuable analytical data - obviously Google aren't doing this just to make life harder for open source apps, that's just a knock-on effect of lock-in in general.
> There are legitimate technical reasons to use a single service for push messaging.
This is only true if you're referring to local daemons as "services" (e.g. Play Services), not remotely hosted services as is the case here (e.g. FCM). There's zero reason Play couldn't support multiple providers as UnifiedPush, etc. do. Just as there's no technical reason not to properly support Web Push.