Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116261526543583522

The reason I joined the Android team in 2010, and that since 2008 I’ve carried Android not iOS devices, was that I could just download software. And other people could download mine.

This new process is a massive breaking of faith with the community.

To be fair, every year or two Apple ratchets up the difficulty of downloading Mac apps.

The doors on every open platform are swinging closed, fast or slow. Capitalism is broken. Another reason we need to protect the Web.

Feaugh.

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Magnus Ahltorp

@timbray @nixCraft Both Apple and Google have burned their trust capital when it comes to these things, so it doesn’t really matter when they act in good faith towards their users and when they don’t, because everyone will treat them as if they act in bad faith. And it’s their fault.