When my current phone dies I’ll be buying a flip phone.
Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt’s not completely meaningless because if it’s truly the only option I’m going to be using it until I eventually replace my current phone with one with an unlocked bootloader.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Guess what!? Those are all Android too!
balder1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But I guess those don’t have Google Play or anything Google, it’s not like a limited Android.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Rimjob_steve moment
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’m afraid that won’t help. There will be even fewer people developing apps specifically for the 0.01% of us using custom ROMs.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re already developing the apps for the 1% of us not just using proprietary apps from the play store. I don’t think this just kills open source app development.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s not who we’re talking about. We’re talking about the 0.1% who have custom ROMs.
It won’t kill it completely but it will severely hurt it. Apps like Syncthing have already discontinued development due to Google shenanigans + lack of users. That’ll only get worse as the userbase shrinks.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There are plenty of people developing apps that require root, and users who run those are already jumpung through a million hoops of cat and mouse to keep their fucking mcdonalds app detecting it.
Like seriously, wtf McDonalds, your app is like the ultimate root/safetynet/device id detection tool, I don’t think there exists even a banking app that is as hard to fool.