TheTearMiserGoogle is requiring mandatory developer verification for all Android apps in 2026
brvslvrnstGrotesque
I’m not giving them my face id or finger print, fuck them. If this change sticks my next device will be an iPhone.
I hate being that guy, but at this point we’re just jumping from a frying pan to another.
Pretty much, that’s just where we are at. What made Android preferable to me was the freedom it offered and Android vendors kept chipping away at that for years. With this change implemented Android will be nothing more than cheap iOS, by then you may as well raise money to get the real thing or cheap out harder by buying a feature phone if doing so is an option.
I’m using a Nokia 105 as my work phone, but I’m contractually required only to be reachable by phone.
IMO, the bandaid solution is a degoogled phone, be it Graphene, e/os or whatever, but we need at least a third player.