Blatant shill article

This will make it more difficult and dangerous to make and publish the apps needed by people who work against oppressive regimes and cynical businesses. Bad megacorp, Google

If they really cared they'd just have some big warning if the all is from an "unverified" developer. It's all about control.

Google gets no say outside their monopoly store. That's the whole goddamn point of "sideloading." It's people treating their pocket computer like they own it.

Fuck entirely off.

Why do we even call it "sideloading"? I can install whatever I want on desktop, even whatever OS, so why not my phone? It is my phone, right?

Classic corporate move: come in attractive (open, rootable, etc) and once the competition is gone slowly make it more profitable on the customers expense.

It can be disabled, right? Right?

How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn’t sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load

apks will have to be cryptographically signed through Google's developer console, and this signature will be checked by the operating system at install time regardless of where you got the apk from. It's like how windows has signed applications for smartscreen, except in this case all applications must be signed through Google, and in order to sign it, you have to let Google know where you live, and unsigned applications will simply be denied instead of just being presented with a warning.

i do not like this, will third party ROMs be the only options going forward?

Doesn't this clearly breach the DMA?

Tldr: if the device has google play services it will prevent u installing any app that doesn't have a developer who has handed their real identity over to google.

Maybe time to think of Huawei and remove Google from the mix at least there I can side-load.

they want to identify them, and issue cease and desist, or buy them out, thats the real reason, and to acquire thier OS to lock down android even harder

They can't go to far down this line, they'll have antitrust issues. They're a mature company doing what mature companies do and letting the middle (marketing) managers who couldn't run a bath, run the company by focusing on cost reduction not earnings growth, and bury it.

We saw this with HP. Remember how we all used to buy HP printers for Linux? I still have my 1990s - please god - LaserJet and can still get toner.