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They won't directly "mandate" the use of Playstore since it would be an obvious abuse of monopoly to regulators. Instead they can (and do) allow developpers to
by hollow-moe 1y ago
They won't directly "mandate" the use of Playstore since it would be an obvious abuse of monopoly to regulators. Instead they can (and do) allow developpers to enable various checks with the Play Integrity API to ensure the app comes from playstore and is running on an "unmodified" android aka maintream OEM android and not custom ROM.
- jqpabc123 1y agoThey won't directly "mandate" the use of Playstore since it would be an obvious abuse of monopoly to regulators. Unlike what they did to NextCloud? Unlike what Apple does?
- hollow-moe 1y agoThey didn't force Nextcloud to distribute through PlayStore, and Apple is under scrutiny for malicious compliance on allowing third party stores in Europe