Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
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Exactly. All these devices can just be bricked the moment some corporation decides they're not worth supporting anymore. Never buy a device that is so heavily dependent on running on another company's services.
It was only £15 though, all apps I installed on it beyond the default ones are through f-droid.
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But apps outside of their store (such as fdroid) get constantly pinged for malware security scans, and android treats them as second class citizens in a lot of scenarios. It's really frustrating to fight your phone on so many fronts just to use the apps you want.
Does this still happen? I use fdroid and it's not only more reliable than the play store, Ive never seen a malware warning or anything.
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It was only £15 though, all apps I installed on it beyond the default ones are through f-droid.
That's fair, but to me, the cost of a new device isn't how much I pay for it - it's the time I invest in using it and maintaining it, as well as how much I rely on it. The biggest reason that I think open hardware and software is important is not just the cost, but the reliability - the fact that it will still be working tomorrow. That is worth a lot more than money to me!
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From the article:
developers can opt out if they don't want their apps to be available more widely
So it won't affect that.
Will banks or Google itself not opt out?
Will Google not offer backroom incentives for companies to opt in to its monopoly scheme like it did before for other schemes?
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Will banks or Google itself not opt out?
Will Google not offer backroom incentives for companies to opt in to its monopoly scheme like it did before for other schemes?
They don't have to offer backroom incentives to the sort of organizations that want to use attestation. That would be a good future target for antitrust courts, as I'm pretty sure Google's primary motivation to add it was Amazon launching a phone in 2014 without Google services. Amazon didn't need Google's help to fail at that, but perhaps the next company to try was dissuaded.
As Apple recently discovered, willful noncompliance with the antitrust court is a bad plan. Google will probably be wary of backroom deals in the short term.
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Yeah, Google became such a shitty company. Used to love them, now I'd like to see them fail.
They're still cool! They have lots of cool things they've released over the past few years! Like... Um...
Uh...
Well shit.
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Haven’t really run into any issues with them
This has been changed if you're lucky enough to have a recent Android version, but not long ago any gallery app sideloaded from external sources couldn't be set as the system gallery, meaning managing pictures was really annoying because any changes required a pop up confirmation.
Pixel 9 Pro XL on Android 15.
That said, I haven't tried changing the photo gallery app yet.
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They're still cool! They have lots of cool things they've released over the past few years! Like... Um...
Uh...
Well shit.
Released? Yes.
Closed down again? Also yes.
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Released? Yes.
Closed down again? Also yes.
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They're still cool! They have lots of cool things they've released over the past few years! Like... Um...
Uh...
Well shit.
The shit was canceled.
