Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months agoat least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.
The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it's hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.
halva@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
that’s not how this works… nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn't prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn't and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it's infinitely better than Apple's walled garden.
Giooschi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unfortunately sooner or later Play Integrity will make this unfeasible in practice.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For the regular user that wants to use banking I will agree, eventually all the large corporate application devs will be sold on play integration as a safety feature but its not hard to see that its a eco system and others little more than locking installs in with googles walled garden.