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Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] (docs.google.com)
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https://developer.android.com/developer-verification (bottom of page)

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[–] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Closing the side loading option is a path to antitrust suits, a slap in the face to privacy, a kick in the teeth to independent devs and personal use.

There is zero reason for this other than wanting full control of how I use my own phone and how much money/data google can squeeze out of everyone.

I did not purchase a phone to have it later be functionally broken as features it had have been stripped in the name of 'security'.

A warning message is all that is needed. The current toggle is enough.

We are not toddlers.

There are not possibly enough cases that it warrants such a restrictive policy aside from the stated reasons above.

Give me liberty or give me symbian.

How's that?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Symbian had package signature fuckery :/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Another reason why it worka in place of the word death in that phrase.

    My only real experience with symbian was waaaaay back when I did tech support for l Sony Ericsson, and while I was more into modding the phones (remember those days?) and playing worms on a 1.5" screen on the walkman line of phones, I did have the p900 and the p1i.

    And let me tell you, OS aside, the P1i was indestructible.

    One exceptionally intoxicated weekend, the gf and I got into a bit of a tiff.

    She grabbed the phone and threw it out the door or the apartment, onto that polished rock type floor.

    It impacted as one would expect.

    Shattered into a hundred pieces.

    But... The screen was the old capacitive touch type, so it was a layer of plastic with a layer of plastic with a layer of plastic with ultra thin wires with a layer of plastic with a layer of glass with a layer of plastic with a layer of metal backing, and the rest of the internals were modular with push in/flip down cable clips that easily separated. The entire body was plastic.

    I laughed.

    (I'd taken it apart before because mods)

    I picked up the parts, put them together as I walked out and turned it back on.

    Anyway, symbian.

    Oh, the memories.

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