Post by @blogdiva@mastodon.social

didn’t i tell you Google is using the #sideloading ban to side-step labor issues? it’s actually worse:

google wants to #aislop and monopolize all #android apps.

so, not only don't they want to deal with developers as contract workers on their appstore ―that’s the whole point of forcing ID, to shoo away the vast majority of developers who aren’t incorporated as businesses. they now want to wipeout said developers and own all the apps.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/932364/google-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026

previously
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116562329969327882

The Verge

Google can now vibe-code you an Android app

Build it on the web and test it on your phone.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social · last week

RE: https://indieweb.social/@permafriday/116561082682363965

THIS IS A LABOR ISSUE

now that Google doesn't have to pretend #android is not the #backdoor #surveillance system Snowden warned us about, it has a problem:

app developers.

the app store was always a honeypot for free #labor. without #apps there is no android. so Google has to rein in app devs, if they don't want their #spyware broken.

but if you give up your encryption keys, the app isn't yours. this isn’t about #privacy.

Google wants app devs to be employees without labor rights.

#sideloading #aislop #android

The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

@lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town · 3 hours ago

@blogdiva Once again for all the hackers in the room:

WE NEED TO HARD FORK ANDROID RIGHT GODDAMN NOW AND DE-GOOGLE THE ENTIRE FUCKING ECOSYSTEM OF IT.

Woozle Hypertwin

@woozle@toot.cat · 1 hour ago

@lambdacalculus @blogdiva

I think this exists, possibly in the plural? I think the main obstacle is that users of existing hardware need to figure out how to root their devices (not always possible), and the Google version is still (as I understand it) lurking deep in the firmware.

(I am not an authoritative source on this, and could definitely be wrong about everything, possibly all the time*.)

(* originally typoed as "itme", which seems entirely appropriate.)