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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid (www.neowin.net)
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[–] damon@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hopefully they go to court to get an injunction. Hopefully, they also go to the powers that be in the EU, those same powers have been so focused on the Apple App Store they failed to take into account Google can do something like this with the Play Store. It would be a shame for the F-Droid project to end but it is completely avoidable.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What we can do is complain. Loudly.

Degoogle where possible. Fuck these assholes.

And i guess prepare.

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[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 15 points 1 day ago

To be fair, up until recently, there was no clear indication that Google would do this. Google made it so that installing non-play store apps was slightly more difficult, Apple made it pretty much impossible. So Apple was a pretty logical target at that point (and honestly, up until then, they had pretty much gotten a free ride - think of the default browser issue in Windows, no one every bothered with Apple).

[–] klobuerschtler@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

EU be like: Really? Didn't you learn from Apple?

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