People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google’s Play store, without having to:
- pay Google
- give government ID to Google
- agree to Google terms and conditions
People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google’s Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.
e.g. via F-Droid.
We’ve got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.
My last straw was when I had location services permission denied to chrome, and then one day discovered that it had turned them back on without notifying me…
Also, every time my apps updated they gave themselves back permissions that I had disabled.