Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens
FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.
I’m actually for this. The bar to entry for the Play Store is too low with too many low quality and unmaintained apps. I’m all for booting insecure and super old apps. They cheapen the ecosystem.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Well that’s all very well, but I’ve got a bathroom speaker I can no longer access.
So how about instead of Daddy Google deciding what’s best for everyone, they let things run and give you a warning?
Hell, I’ve even got games I’ve paid for that are now gone. Honestly, fuck them for even thinking that’s acceptable.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That is not what’s happening. It takes tons of work to maintain backward compatibility but you’re framing it as though it doesn’t and they’re just being a holes on purpose.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The problem is allowing the APIs it uses to exist at all in the OS is a huge security hole.
Gingernate@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Why can’t you connect to the speaker with Bluetooth?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It doesn’t allow direct connection. You have to dick about with a stupid app to put it in “speaker mode” first.
LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Gives me Sonos vibes.
I won a Sonos speaker years ago, thing needed (from memory) an app to switch to AUX mode. The speaker sounded great but I didn’t want to install an app just to use the thing.
In a grand spectacle my ex’s cat kicked a potplant off a windowsill into our fish tank. That shorted a power board, we didn’t have breakers (ceramic / wire fuses) which ended up killing the speaker.
Honestly as nice of a speaker it was, good riddance.