• RBG
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    146 months ago

    Google allows that though or do they mean access of Google Play via 3rd party apps?

    Not that I am saying it might not be necessary to include Google from the start, sets a good precedence and prevents a future where they might go the Apple route.

    Just hope both Google and Apple won’t restrict opening up to Japanese market only. But who am I kidding, they will.

    • petrescatraian
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      226 months ago

      I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk manually.

      • TWeaK
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        86 months ago

        Downloading F-Droid from Google Play kind of defeats the purpose of F-Droid.

          • TWeaK
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            16 months ago

            You’re still putting a measure of trust into Google with that, rather than just trusting F-Droid.

            • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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              16 months ago

              You’re still putting complete trust into Google by using any android that isn’t thoroughly de-googled, built from scratch, and installed on a jailbroken phone. They’re integrated on the OS level they can do whatever they want.

              • TWeaK
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                16 months ago

                Lol I do run Android without Google Play Services.

      • NoIWontPickAName
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        16 months ago

        I don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.

        • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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          66 months ago

          F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.

    • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
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      16 months ago

      If they didn’t open up to anyone else when EU implemented it back in March/April, they won’t do it now.