Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
Getting a monopoly to be less shitty is nice, but wouldn't building an alternative be much better?
There is already the french /e/ OS that exists. I wish european countries would start building on it and improving it. Thereby breaking the shitty monopoly.
Europe seems to have suddenly awaken and started actively looking for alternatives to american big tech.
And a Google free phone would be a thing.
Android is based on Linux and was a free and open source software. It has been highjacked.
Being free open source, it belongs to humanity. It can be european if europeans work on it. It can be japanese if Japan works on it.
Is /e/ completely freed from Google dependency? Probably not, but it is definetely something to work on.
(This is a non-tech person’s somment.)
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