A) You can still install any app you want beyond the Play Store (the rule is that developers need to get all their apps signed, and doesn’t effect the end user technically)
Signed by who? Google? If so how does that not basically give them a monopoly on what can be installed?
And what about privacy? If somone wants to build an app to help whistleblowers, they have to expose themselves to a shady shitty mega Corp like Google?
Also why? Every other week there is some article about malicious apps leaking into the playstore. If they can’t even control their own store, why would they police everything.
Considering:
A) You can still install any app you want beyond the Play Store (the rule is that developers need to get all their apps signed, and doesn’t effect the end user technically)
And
B) Its most likely being done because of the EU, it’s a part of the DSA (https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act_en). The “trader status”, and other parts against illegal content)
The EU most like has already set them straight and this is the result.
Signed by who? Google? If so how does that not basically give them a monopoly on what can be installed?
And what about privacy? If somone wants to build an app to help whistleblowers, they have to expose themselves to a shady shitty mega Corp like Google?
Also why? Every other week there is some article about malicious apps leaking into the playstore. If they can’t even control their own store, why would they police everything.