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Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns (www.androidauthority.com)

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Google’s new developer registration requirements could make it impossible for independent Android app stores like F-Droid to survive, the group behind the open-source repository has warned in a new blog post

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

AOSP (which is barely usable) and the latest and greatest mobile linux distro is enormous.

I think AOSP is barely usable because basically nobody does use it unmodified, and the best Linux mobile distro is the way it is because it's a niche of a niche. Given a real community I think that could actually change faster than you expect.

Write to your representatives and start voting in more than just the presidential election

LMAO I have more confidence in the possibility of a Linux OS becoming the third major mobile OS than this happening at this point. US democracy broke.