@fdroidorg Would you consider #sideload a form of gaslighting?

@fdroidorg are they not violating the copyright of the linuxkernel?

@fdroidorg This is what happen when people kept promoting iPhone.

Hopefully, linux mobile phone gets more attentions.

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#google massive side eye

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Our nonprofit group's award winning, prosocial, non-violent video games were removed by #Google.

🤥 They claimed that we had misled them by classifying them as #educational. Google purported to know more about our work than we do.

🎮 Our free games about #consent and #healthyrelationships were unilaterally removed from Google Play, making it much tougher for us to reach and help young people.

🧡 The ubiquity of smartphones make game marketplaces a necessary channel for us to reach #adolescents directly.

#indiegames #publichealth #violenceprevention #DVAM #antitrust #criticalthinking #dh #undueinfluence #duopoly #education #students @stopTDV

@fdroidorg https://www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-apk-for-that-no-need-for-pc-phone/

he's in for a rude awakening when android XR bring closed source and such catches up with him

@fdroidorg no use of anything until u start ur own OS/device with the help of other foss community developers... Start collaboration with investors... Make a good product and sell it at very budget price...

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This is the last straw from google. I will go to graphene OS.
However, if there will be such a monstrous monopoly owned by google without any solid competition, de-googling will be difficult for the average user. Unfortunately, most users don't care about this case.

@fdroidorg 1000%

@fdroidorg Does anyone know if Harmony NextOS will allow third party apps?

@fdroidorg Quick question, if you donʼt mind, since I canʼt find this anywhere online. The 'outside of China' qualifier in your post: does this mean Chinese-spec, non-Google phones (which are still Android) will escape Googleʼs draconian measures?

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Better than burner hones for demos?

This:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.torproject.torservices/

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I'm not absolving the A holes at Google but I think the Trump regime could have told them to do this. They don't want period apps that don't share information with them or apps that thwart ICE efforts etc. Verified developers will have to play nicely with the regimes wishes.

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short:
i think android as a open system is over. it is only a matter of time when it dies.

i thought somewhere around 2015 that android was fixable into open system, even that time there was too much google in it.

now we need fresh start .... unfortunately.

(f-droid probably do not want to hear this.)

(apple is already closed, now even macs.)

@fdroidorg shouldn't sideloading actually mean applications that gets installed without your consent which google seem to be quite good at pushing applications I never asked for like Android System SafetyCore

@fdroidorg sideloading is a made up "fault", like the made up crime of jaywalking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s

@fdroidorg Google is sidecontrolling us...

@fdroidorg Keep going on guys 🙏❤️ but we do know what Android not became, but always be : Google's Monopoly toy. Time to switch to another system. Urgently we do need projects like @postmarketOS or Mobian to go from testers to full daily use, with smartphones built with open hardware. No way to keep Qualcomm/Android in this deal because one forces you to use the other one... Nice hardware and software locking system that Microsoft would love too !

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https://keepandroidopen.org/
👍

@fdroidorg Hot take: Google can afford to do this chiefly for two reasons:

1. They're one half of a duopoly.
2. We all need a smartphone to function in modern society.

If people knew they could buy a KaiOS phone and use it for 2FA or payments, Google might not be so cocky. If governments everywhere didn't keep threatening to eliminate cash, Google might not feel too big to fail. Demanding regulation is all good and well. I hope it works. But they'll just try again, like with Chat Control.

@fdroidorg arguably, it's Google who is sideloading. If the device owner wants to install some software in his or her device direcly, that is the front door, not some side entrance.