cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19650358
Through an updated Google API, Android app developers can now effectively block sideloading and force downloads from the Play Store.
Isn’t that a textbook monopolistic practices lawsuit?
Not really since it’s opt in for the developers who chose to distribute only on the play store
Sounds more like DRM, since it’s for developers to choose whether or not to disable side loading their apps
Well, that will make it easy to uninstall apps.
All my homies download from fdroid
But the picture I saw said “get this app from play” not, “get this app from a trusted store”. That to me does not read DRM.
So you’re saying it should allow for developers to allow exclusive installation from third party stores as well? Like amazon? Fair.
Fucking hell just when I decided to get my first pixel after leaving Samsung
Pixels have really good custom Roms available.
But what breaks though? I heard android auto is broke with Graphene. AA is a requirement for me
Edit: apparently AA broke on a crap ton of Custom Roms including CalyxOS
That might be a showstopper and I don’t know anything about AA when it comes to custom roms.
