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#Android offers what #Apple never did: you are the one deciding what runs on your device.
Until now.
⚠️ Google’s developer verification scheme, with its 24h waiting period and app store fees of up to 16,000 USD a year, fades Android as an open platform. We question if Google is turning to Apple's business model.
WE cannot afford two Apples. WE need to correct this course.
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@fsfe what can we do?!
@fsfe It's all converging to the worst outcomes, sometimes it's always been there, until discovered. Google to Apple practices, Apple to Google's. Open source converges to closed source unethical behavior.
Entropy in software goes toward disrespectful, arrogant, forceful sloppification. There you go.
@fsfe Do you or will you accept code written by slaves?
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We already have a duopoly which infringes massively on users rights, holds to no standards whatsoever. The current push towards more restrictiveness is only consequential.
This leads to the conclusion that we need not only to prevent a further restrictive push (aka apple 2) but start pushing further to force the duopoly to let us have the freedom to use whatever software we deem fit.
@fsfe does it only seem to me or all this ranting and info in FOSS apps "so far has led to no action"? I don't see the general Google's intention changes at all or if there has been any significant push-back or compromise.
@fsfe Where is the 16k USD a year coming from? AFAIK, there's "only" a one-time 25 USD fee for registration, there are no annual fees, but maybe I am missing something.