Sunshine (she/her)Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration
DrDystopiaStill a bad joke. If the custom ROMs can’t get past this it’s either dumb-phone or linux phone next. No compromise.
MudManI believe they confirmed uncertified devices will not have these requirements, so technically degoogled Android should still be fine.
You don't get Google services, but then again that's also true of every other alternative.
It's all jumping the gun for now. We'll see where this goes.
DaddleDewThat will still significantly hinder the development of third party apps if only a small niche proportion of people can install it.
Yyyyes?
I mean, as opposed to what? Linux phones? The guy is saying that if this goes through he may try dumbphones or Linux phones, I'm saying that degoogled Android may also be able to bypass the problem. How is what I'm saying in conflict with what you responded?
Sorry, I know I'm grumpy, but on this subject it's been super frustrating the degree to which people just respond to isolated stimuli like a dog seeing a ball go by. Like, zero ability or attempt to grasp context or meaning, just see a word, type the thing they wanted to say regardless of whether it fits. It gets grating after a while.
If Google makes side loading of apps impossible unless you have a degoogled phone, projects that need side loading to function like F-Droid and other open source apps will see their already small user base collapse to only the niche audience of those who have a degoogled phone. I don’t expect those projects and apps to maintain the level of support they currently have if it is for such a reduced audience.
You say that people who use degoogled phones will be unaffected by this measure. My point is that they will be hurt by it regardless.
I said it because it's... true? Well, in that this is what they announced anyway. Also, relevant to the post I was responding to.
So how is it downplaying anything? It's not downplaying it, it's not exaggerating it, it just... is.
Nobody is arguing with you on this being bad, friend. You just want to be mad at a shill and because you couldn't find one you're doing your bit at the first person that said anything other than "Google sucks" even if it was on an unrelated subject.
Don't do that. That's a bad thing to do.
All I did is expand on the other negative side effects of this measure that weren’t mentioned so people know what might come down the road from it.
You’re the one who decided to take it as a personal attack and I’m getting pretty tired of those poorly disguised and uncalled for insults you’ve been throwing my way ever since.
Go sleep over it and read this all again with a rested head.
Yeeeah, maybe take your own advice there.
For the record, we're still not disagreeing, technically. In that "All I did is expand on the other negative side effects of this measure that weren't mentioned" is 100% "I couldn't find a shill to argue with, so I had the argument all by my lonesome whether it made sense or not".
It's still bad.
Again, I never called you a shill. You just made it all up yourself. You just said it yourself you’re not even disagreeing with my precision. And yet you still cling to the delusion that this precision was an attack somehow and used it as justification to insult me multiple times.
Just because I didn’t return those insults doesn’t mean I’m going to keep taking them. There is no point repeating myself any further. You’re blocked now. You seem more interested in attacking and insulting an imaginary version of myself so you won’t miss me.