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.
Or… just don’t use android. There’s a few degoogled forks out there, they should really catch on.
“The tighter you squeeze, the more slips through your fingers.”
Also, we all know this isn’t about keeping malicious apps off people’s devices, because even the play store is full of malicious apps. I’d trust anything on F-droid more.
I trust 8 year old out of date F-droid apps more than google play front page apps.
Some fdroid apps are absolutly goated that you cant get on playstore
They are, graphene will be getting a side launch with a major distributor about a year a after launch and you can mamual install it when the flagship is released. The reason google phones buy is so people can install graphen lol.
There are more besides just graphene though
Any update on what the Grapheme phone will be? Have not heard of it since it was announced