You’ll basically have to signup to install third party apps on your device per app in general and alot of the convenience and developer community will still just leave android as a whole.
Leave android and go where?
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dorumon@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
So I just read what they are going to do and this article is just clickbait. Basically they still want you to dox yourself but it’ll still work like iOS Test Pilot. Google is still full of shit and lies but hey at least you don’t have to pay them money until enough users download your app if you want more.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
dil@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Incentivizes developing for linux phones, ppl choose android for the freedom
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Who do we donate to?
Pirate@feddit.org 7 hours ago
If android goes the way it’s going, then iPhone is the obvious choice.
Mistic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not really an option considering it’s even more locked down.
Hope Valve comes up with something eventually, after all they’ve been getting into x86 emulation for mobile ARM chips lately. Granted, it was for VR, but still.
Pirate@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Hope Valve comes up with something eventually
That could be interesting. In terms of the iPhone being locked down, I’m not sure what you’re looking to do but personally managed to get ad-free Reddit, YouTube and YouTube music ad-free (+sponsorblock) just using apps from the App Store. All of them free or one-time payment of 3 euros. It was actually easier to do than with Android where I had to “sideload” stuff from GitHub since Android is owned by google and all frontends to their programs are banned.
As long as you get yourself an email that isn’t iCloud you can also take all your contacts and email with you wherever you want. Then you can install KDE Connect as you would on Android and can send files freely between you phone and Pc. I don’t feel more locked down on the iPhone than on Android, which was a surprise for me as well.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Google also extending this to things like fireOS
it would not, because fireos was based on ancient versions of android like android 11 or earlier, and the block is enforced via google play services which isn’t present on there.
but new fireos doesn’t run android apps at all. New devices temporarily run android apps on a VM hosted on AWS servers and then stream the video, but only if those apps are distributed on the amazon appstore, and it’s a stopgap until the devs make their apps compatible with the new OS.
And old fireos devices will start to gradually uninstall “dangerous” sideloaded apks
Integrate777@discuss.online 1 day ago
They’ll probably also release a new API to allow apps to check if user have enabled sideloading. Then overzealous apps like fucking mcdonalds will throw a hissy fit about and refuse to work unless you turn it off. Also your bank too, just to really twist the knife.
rumba@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Let em all shut me down. If they don’t need my business, I don’t need theirs. I just found out that Casio makes a g-shock with Bluetooth and you can screw with it using python and an unlisted API.
One more nail in the coffin for my smartphone footprint. I just want an 8" linux tablet, a watch that can give me messages from signal and a battery powered access point.
Integrate777@discuss.online 1 hour ago
The biggest problem are the banking apps. If you’re standing at checkout and your payment app says
“Unverified apps have been detected on your phone. Please uninstall and try again.”
99% of people will delete FDroid and never sideload anything every again.
rumba@lemmy.zip 21 minutes ago
With every credit card in existence, supporting Tap to pay these days. We have a pretty decent alternative.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Please tell me there is a video about this that is not on youtube.
rumba@lemmy.zip 18 minutes ago
To be honest, it’s probably the last thing that doesn’t exist properly on YouTube.
But like 99.999% of everything else, it’s not on peertube either.
If you hit a Google search, there are probably a handful of projects for Bluetooth, Casio, Python.
There are a bunch of videos of people reviewing the watch, but they’re watch reviewers. Other than the Android or iOS app, they hardly touch that it supports anything.
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
You know it’s kinda funny that I can’t even run the MC Donalds app without doing some fuckery. But my banking app will throw a hissy fit if I try to sign into my account without a rooted or custom ROMed phone because that’s how they know it’s me apparently. Also shame that my banking app stopped supporting Android 8.0 a few years back. I miss my LG V20.