What competitor?
Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A 24hr waiting period to use a competitor’s product has to be one of the most blatant anti-competitive behaviour in history.
archy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Welcome to McDonald’s credit! You’ll have to wait 24hrs if you want to eat that Whopper you want to buy!
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I‘m curious I read the petition and didn‘t see mention of „24h waiting“ anywhere could you tell me what you‘re referring to?
a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago The 24h wait period is a part of the so-called “advanced flow” which will become the only way to install apps not verified by google once their new rules go into effect, as described here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.
Oh well can’t change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It’s a shame the ancient wizards that wrote the constitution weren’t clairvoyant.)
Bacano@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If only there were some way to change the ancient text. Some sort of amend-sion. Surely our benevolent leaders would have figured something like that out by now. I guess we’ll just have to keep voting and hoping every four years
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas
Harmonics041@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Or just call a constitutional convention and write a new one.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That surely won’t backfire spectacularly.
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
That’s it gents! Wax up those mustaches, load the cannon with grape, storm the White House! We’ll give those bastards a day of reckoning that won’t soon be forgot.
Also kilts and face paint 🤣
cactus_head@programming.dev 2 days ago
I am not from the US but can’t you interpret the first amendment in a way that would work here?
Code is just information and you could argue that a platform is infringing on private free speech.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i am American, and yes we have a long history of interpretation that is expansive. the problem is we have narrow minded people running the institutions now who don’t even wasn’t the narrow interpretations to be in effect so they do everything possible to limit them.
if you pay attention long enough you will see them use one argument to get their way, then later use the opposite to get their way on a different issue. there is no moral consistency because morality is just s tool to them.