I can’t believe how useless the EU regulations are.
Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t this illegal in Europe? Was that the whole point of forcing apple to allow alternative app stores?
bigFab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 months ago
It’s because they regularly overstep their bounds and force overseas companies to do things they have no right to make them do, which actively hurt their business. Of course companies are going to do their very best to comply while making it have as little impact as possible!
magguzu@midwest.social 2 months ago
If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it’s not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click “allow anyway?”
This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
No, Google is following Apple’s exmaple.
progandy@feddit.org 2 months ago
Technically, third party app stores are allowed. Developers “only” register with google to receive a developer certificate. Isn’t apple doing the same thing in response to the EU regulations and that has been allowed?
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Seems like a weasel around the requirement to get rid of the actual benefit of 3rd party stores.