Phones should be getting more open not closed off.
Go fuck yourself Google, stop making everything worse!
supported app stores
EU Gatekeeper investigation when? And will it matter, after it’s established fact? Merely cost of doing business?
Apparently there will be a way to disable this crap: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html?m=1
Still fuck Google, but at least there’s a way to opt-out.
giving external developers the opportunity to pay $25 and verify their identities
Extortion too
Having been in the app store development community for a decade, this isn’t honestly the WORST thing. So much malware gets pushed now it’s a fucking gha-tto. This isn’t the worst thing to combat, though I believe there should be a FREE tier for Open Source or otherwise community-driven apps to be released on with zero barriers - AGAIN, oenisn game sort of verification which could be cheap, reliable and FREE.
For me the worst part is giving Google a phone number and copy of id document. Not a problem with companies, but for individuals it is huge.
What is oenisn? Misspelled Genshin? Open-ish? Leninism? Bosnian? Penis?
Onanism?
