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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 4 days ago (10 children)

“ but android is open source! You can do whatever you want with it!”

A 20 year-old lie, and I’m glad to see the android worshipers finally realize it was always a load of shit.

You can complain about iOS all you like, but android is no better. It’s about time people started to realize that.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 days ago

There's a world of difference between iOS and Android.

Just look at Lineage and Graphene. Both independently compiled versions of Android. Show me the equivalent in iOS.

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[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago

Surely that means they'll allow more apps onto their own app store with that, right? Right?

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wao, how is this going to work if now they are required by law to allow third-party stores in Android? What the fuck?

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 7 points 3 days ago

This a massive overreach and so stupid when nowadays apple even relaxed their limitations a little, I heard that iOS users don't need to jailbreak anymore to use outside apps. What will be the point of android?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
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[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.

Any chance you can just remove their shit via adb?

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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 5 points 4 days ago

I guess this is the last kick I needed to buy a new phone and move away from Google permanently.

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