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TL;DR is that he says his initial reaction was "frustration" but then he goes on to parrot everything Google said to justify this.
For example,
It is to protect people from scammers. It isn't aimed at power users (Sounds very much like "It is to protect the children. This isn't aimed at power users").
There is no mention of https://keepandroidopen.org/ and what it means for developers of free and open android applications.
There is no mention of statements made by developers of applications like F-droid, Obtainium and Newpipe who have openly said that they do not agree with this step from Google.
There is no mention of how this can potentially demotivate individual android app developers and drive them away from the platform entirely (here is an example of this).
There is also no mention of how most of these malware, adware and nagware infested apps used by scammers are ironically on Google's own Play Store.
Other that that, no. I'm sure I did not read the content of his essay carefully enough. More importantly, my opinion doesn't matter. I'm just a reactionary idiot. But I wonder what the developers of those free and open source applications on F-droid, applications that cannot be installed via the Play Store (but their scammy fake versions can be), will react to this being called a "fair trade".
Sure. I experienced a scam and I told them to "fuck off".
That's not 57% fell for a scam, or 57% of android users got scammed by "side loaded" software. It's cherry picking a stat just justify a monopolistic practice.
Wow. Thanks for clearing that up. That was the first time I heard about the "advanced flow" and the criticism surrounding it.
Sure seems like a useful idiot at best.
Typical it doesn't effect me so why are they doing it. You said your selff 57% is a huge number. And they hopefully can reduce that. People on here secerly underestimate the average person let alone the half of the people who are below average.
Why so many fucking bootlickers??????????
You would think FOSS overall would be inherently leftist but apparently not lmfao
There is so many in the world it is actually crazy