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Google and his Darth Vader move (lemmy.ml)
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Peace be with you, F-Droid Community. ๐ŸŒน

As many probably know, Google will block Android starting 2027.

Here is my hope: Google has shot itself in the foot with this Darth Vader move, because many People who loves privacy will now switch to de-googled systems, because ( Since to my knowledge), the blockade won't affect those systems.

So this is just my Openion and my HOPE.

What's your take on this?

And I kindly say to all developers: Please don't register in Google.

There are so many people using de-googled systems now, including myself. Please keep going for us, and four you too. Please

Best wishes from Germany ๐ŸŒน

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[โ€“] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well, since I never took time to master phone magic, now they are going to give me a push. Thanks, I guess

[โ€“] Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

I started the journey about a year ago. Huge boon to my life even if I don't work anywhere near tech.

[โ€“] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 hours ago

because many People who loves privacy

almost 12 of us ... i jest but seriously, everyone using Apple and >90% of Android users don't care. Google knows this and they just bang on about this being best for Android users to ameliorate any concerns around governance issues.

Even many supposed staunch, so called privacy advocates, will complain they can't change because banking or some such, so they stick with the status quo as every minor inconvenience is seen as an insurmountable wall.

So i expect some bloviating initially and then acceptance. In 5 years, no shits given (headphone jack, expandable storage saw the same sort of thing)

tl;dr press x for doubt (x)

[โ€“] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

How is this going to work for the companies that have internal only apps like time clocks or schedulers. Can they pay the fee and have their apps hidden from the PlayStore or are they all fucked?

[โ€“] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

This isn't stopping apps from outside the Play Store, internal apps can still be distributed internally (downloading an APK from a website for example). But these apps now have to be signed by a developer verified by Google. This happens by registering on Google Play, uploading the app, giving Google all the info, and then just not publishing the app on Google Play.

[โ€“] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Adb will continue to work

[โ€“] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Maybe i freaked out a bit too early. Still going to move away from Google Android personally but the business i work for is way too large to even attempt.

[โ€“] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I was doing Android development recently and apparently the official SDK builds needed to build the app aren't FOSS, and actually FOSS versions are difficult to get. I still can't wait until Linux phones are a thing, Android is such a shitshow nowadays and even GrapheneOS is still at the mercy of Google's ecosystem. (also no aarch64-linux support for the build tools either)

[โ€“] dragospirvu75@lemmy.ml 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Motorola will release a phone with GrapheneOS in 2027, it would be a good pick.

[โ€“] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

Ironically they're the top government surveillance camera manufacturer where I live on deflock

[โ€“] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

Don't forget about the new automatic Google play services check that app developers can enable with a single click on build. That automatically blocks the app from working on any degoogled ROM

[โ€“] Newhere@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

So, did I understood correctly that just getting pixel with GrapheneOS is way out?

[โ€“] titanicx@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sooooo the way out, is to pay Google a thousand dollars for their phone......

[โ€“] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If that's a bother you could get it secondhand

[โ€“] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Still props up Google's phone business.

[โ€“] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes. Bonus if you get it used just make sure it's completely unlocked. A carrier phone is not unlocked and is a pain in be butt to get unlocked. I can't remember what instance it's on but there's a graphene community.

Edit it's !grapheneos@lemmy.ml I know some instances don't interact with .ML though

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