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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

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[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A major roadblock would be making it user friendly enough for the average person to be able to use it as well as an online help community that doesn't treat newcomers like shit.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 9 minutes ago

From my experience with Sailfish, it is user friendly. The problem is the hardware working as well and finding apps that do what you need. Both issues won't be fixed without a larger user base.

But it will never be for the average user. That requires massive companies backing it and that requires evil intention. Google is a good example. It started being "nice" but just to get enough market to do this. Or Microsoft and Apple, just being evil from the beginning since they know the average user doesn't care about that.