How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn’t sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load
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Classic corporate move: come in attractive (open, rootable, etc) and once the competition is gone slowly make it more profitable on the customers expense.
Classic Google move as well.
Why do we even call it “sideloading”? I can install whatever I want on desktop, even whatever OS, so why not my phone? It is my phone, right?
I’m not really understanding. I buy a phone. Peter codes and app with foss tools and emails it to me. No copyright or anything bad like a to do app. I want to use said app on my purchased phone. Now Peter will have to show his license and stuff? I guess developers are criminals.
I’m not really understanding
But you are understanding. Google sees us all as criminals.
Well your not wrong a lot of privacy developers get more years than pedos
Between this, Play Integrity API, and Google removing source code, they’re basically declaring war on the openness of their own platform.
Doesn’t this clearly breach the DMA?
Maybe time to think of Huawei and remove Google from the mix at least there I can side-load.
Except that they are so hostile to open source and custom roms.
I always check if they are an option since the phone is guaranteed to be free from google garbage on boot and I’m always disappointed.
They could be the go to for everyone who hates google but they just shot themselves in the food instead.
Huawei no longer builds HarmonyOS on top of Android code, meaning APK files no longer install. It is a closed system, possibly the worst of all three considering its small, localised market share.
How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn’t sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load
apks will have to be cryptographically signed through Google’s developer console, and this signature will be checked by the operating system at install time regardless of where you got the apk from. It’s like how windows has signed applications for smartscreen, except in this case all applications must be signed through Google, and in order to sign it, you have to let Google know where you live, and unsigned applications will simply be denied instead of just being presented with a warning.
windows has signed applications for smartscreen
Funny thing is, Microsoft executables are not signed, and I get smartscreen warnings lol
i do not like this, will third party ROMs be the only options going forward?
Well it says next year. And a lot could happen between then and now. Some comments think they will run into anti trust issues trying this.
