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F Droid is no where near being a critical project holding Android up. The Play Store, and the Play Services themselves are much more critical. Being open source
by charcircuit 10mo ago
F Droid is no where near being a critical project holding Android up. The Play Store, and the Play Services themselves are much more critical. Being open source doesn't make you immune from criticism for not following industry standards or being called out for poor security.
- lucb1e 10mo agoIf you have nothing to install on your device, what's the point of being able to? For me, f-droid is a cornerstone in the android ecosystem. I could source apks elsewhere but it would be much more of a hassle and not necessarily have automatic updates. iOS would become a lot more attractive to me if Android didn't have the ecosystem that's centered around the open apps that you can find on f-droid
- charcircuit 10mo ago>If you have nothing to install on your device >I could source apks elsewhere Do you or do you not have apps you want to install?
- drnick1 10mo ago> The Play Store, and the Play Services themselves are much more critical. Critical for serving malware and spyware to the masses, yes. GrapheneOS is based on Android and is far better than a Googled Android variant precisely because it is free of Google junk and OEM crapware.
- charcircuit 10mo agoThe internet itself is also critical for serving malware and spyware, but that doesn't mean that the internet is garbage. Google invests much more into removing malicous apps from the app store than fdroid does.