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Murena is launching a smartphone with a hardware kill switch again (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can someone clarify: according to Murena's website, they use /e/OS, which is what they call "degoogled" Android. I would assume degoogled means no Play Store. If that's the case, what's going to happen next year, when Google starts blocking installing .apks by unverified developers? Which, I'm assuming, is a good chunk of developers who have apps on F-Droid.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago

    No worries Google's actions against installing apks from outside the Play Store will only influence Android, not any of the other operating systems that are based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    means no Play Store

    Indeed, by default AFAICT they provide Aurora Store and F-Droid App Lounge (edited: was a little while so I forgot, I install F-Droid on every Android device I have as a reflex).

    Regarding the consequence... well I don't know the future. Maybe alternative stores will have a "trick" so that they are considered verified and thus can install other .apk, or maybe it won't matter for rooted phones anyway.

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