Meanwhile Apple’s just over there ruling their walled garden with an iron fist and nobody seems to care.
Anyone go to jail, any business-crushing fines pushed on Google? No? Well gosh, it would appear it is acceptable
soooo… nobody is going to bring up to the judge how Google is adding many more steps to install software outside Play Store?
Do all apps in Epic store and Amazon App Store get an exception from this new rule or something?
Do all apps in Epic store and Amazon App Store get an exception from this new rule or something?
I just installed the one currently available app store (which frankly and beside the point, seems like garbage) and installing an app from it goes through the same process as, say, downloading an app from GitHub via the browser and being prompted to give permission to the browser to install APKs.
I’m guessing it’s going to run into the sideloading issue in 140 days, and at that time I’m (just) guessing they’ll have cause to bring it to a judge to discuss it.
I’d like to say that Google would see the writing on the wall and just drop the sideloading nonsense, but the process they implemented by order of the court seems like malicious compliance; it takes several extra steps to install an app store from Google play than any other app. That suggests to me they’re not going to do anything in good faith and wait for the court to force them.
The one “currently available” app store where? There are many of them.
The one you can install via Google’s Play Store.
It’s literally the topic of the entire thread.
The cases decision was about rival app stores in general. The bulk of those aren’t on Google’s marketplace.
Please read the article.
Does everyone here have a paid subscription to The Verge? I’m on lemmy. There’s never or rarely, a post here that isn’t behind a paywall. Is there some trick I am missing out on?
There is an advantage to app stores, they can update apps they installed without user interaction.
I’d disagree that auto updates are really an advantage, however my point was that the upcoming changes to sideloading apps (which includes a 24 hour wait to enable sideloading) will probably apply to apps installed via third party app stores. I’m basing this on the fact that third party app stores seem to leverage the same mechanism as sideloading apps from other sources, like via the browser.
Our entire economic system depends on judges being 100 years old and knowing nothing about current technology.
Tell me about it. I’d kill for a presidential candidate who knew how to connect to a wifi network on their own, or attach a file in Gmail and send it.
You want to run? What’s your take on beans and corn?
As I understand it, even apps distributed by other stores need to be registered with and pay
SauronGoogle.From next month isn’t it? For people using Google Android anyway, pretty sure Calyx and Graphene are fine.
AFAIK it’s specifically google play services that enforces it, if you don’t have that on the phone then you’re fine.
Isn’t the epic and Amazon store fine, as long as they are not preventing you from installing something without their shitty store
I mean yeah I get that it’s not okay to make it different, even though I also of course get that you want the user to be aware what they’re doing.
But still, come the fuck on Google.
And come the FUCK on judges, don’t let Apple get away with their walled-garden bullshit even harder than Google ever tried! Rake them HARD!
It’s sad we have to rely on judges for this. There are two entire branches of government that can put an end to this any time they want. They just don’t want to. Despite the people they supposedly represent definitely wanting it.
Even more basic: Why are people just taking this? Why do so few people care?
What would not “taking it” look like?
“And google ignored a judicial ordered and got fined 1€”
Now do the same for Apple.
And Sony.
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