How many game launchers are there on PC. There will be 100x more on mobile.
Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
odium@programming.dev 9 months ago
Epic never sued for monetary damages; it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android
I wonder how this will work out. If the judge actually forces it, so many large apps might show up on alternatives like fdroid and greatly improve fdroid capabilities.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fdroid better stay as FOSS and privacy focused. I don’t want to see Spotify or some subscription brand bullshit up there.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
FOSS does not mean “privacy focused”. It means the software is free (as in freedom) and the source code is open and available for modification and redistribution and there are already several subscription-based services on there that I am happy to support.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m aware of what foss means, it’s why I out an “and” after it given fdroid has a separate focus on privacy.
Subscribe to what you like I’d would prefer if fdroid remained as a pillar of security and openness and didn’t welcome in a load corpo cunts.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
Can I introduce you to F-Droid+? It’s only $9.99 for the first 3 months.
pirat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
IIRC, no one stops anyone from making their own repository that people can add to their F-Droid client. But I agree that the native F-Droid repo should stay (more or less) as it is.
768@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Artificial media scarcity subscription models are much harder to implement with licenses like AGPL, but personal data crawlers still pose tremendous risks, especially in the future of technology.
art@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t believe the F-Droid will ever be implementing any kind of payment processing through the app store.