Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass.

• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problem is that systems like this have strong network effects working in favor of the established options, nobody develops for platforms without users, nobody wants to use a platform without apps, development has more resources (existing libraries, tutorials, reference documentation,…) on existing platforms,…

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So, help break the circle. You can target any of the nodes you mentioned.

    • develop for the platform even if it has no issues (file it as “future-proofing”, “engineering concept”, whatever).
    • use the platform while waiting for apps to come up, provide feedback on what apps are needed (and provide feedback on what can be done app-less, which is even more important).
    • provide resources for develpopment (this one is somewhat more restricted).

    None of the technologies that are abusing the network effect today started with a full charter of users.

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