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[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kinda depressing that all of big-tech seems to have given up "innovating" (finding applications for publicly-funded research), and have become rent-seeking dinosaurs.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Capitalism baby

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Purism makes premium phones..." Haaaaaaaaa 😂

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Correction: purism sells mediocre phones for premium prices.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why is it so hard to "Don't be Evil"

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That would mean less money, at least in the short term, but also in the long term as it grants the user the autonomy of optionality, the power to choose some of Google's edicts. Really it's about the power to shape the choices of the users in the future. Take their power away. And in the future this will be conducive to leverage this power against the user for more money.

I asked the AI about it, in case anyone is curious https://chatgpt.com/share/68454a70-5cd8-8005-8075-3579244f0ce4

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm tired of this evil is related to money. When did our species die on the hill that money's more important than humanity itself?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The moment money became the only way to get food.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That is bullshit, the economy is created to force you into the labor market. This is just a symptom of capitalism.

[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

...in Singapore...

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 16 points 6 days ago

Not bothered if necessary Il patch every apk before installing it, one more stupid American move that will ultimately give the entire market to the Chinese.

[–] p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com 141 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] elvith@feddit.org 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends. Are you from the EU or not?

[–] p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com 92 points 1 week ago

I am, that's why it sounds illegal. :D

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Purism is sketchy btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk

(Louis Rossman videos explaining how a customer was denied a refund for a "pre-order" and then they tried to coerce Louis to take down the video.)

Edit: typo

[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

As a person who experienced the customer support regrading preorders I can confirm this firm is extremly sketchy.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In parallel, Google has rolled out its Play Integrity API, which allows developers to limit app functionality when sideloaded, effectively pushing users to install apps only through the Google Play Store.

All of this while EU forbids Apple to do the same, what is the idea here? Measuring how EU reacts?

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub -2 points 6 days ago

...did you read the ad...? It quite obviously answers your question and calls out the difference. The large, glaring one. The one that probably even a first grader would grasp.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Is it the same though? Google is allowing the developers to choose to prevent sideloading. I thought Apple's issue was that they prevented side loading completely.

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yikes this really doesn't look good. Is there any reporting on it from independent journalists (or anyone else who isn't also advertising their own competing operating system)?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not that I've seen and I'd take what Purism say with a grain of salt: they've acted like pretty shitty gatekeepers themselves. Nothing they mentioned in the article seems too egregious in truth and they're exaggerating the scale of it: Play Store app DRM exists already, and the restrictions on browser-downloaded apps they mention can be bypassed (albeit by having to go into settings) and don't apply to apps installed through other apps stores (F-Droid, etc).

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 43 points 1 week ago

This article is a thinly veiled ad paired with fearmongering to get gullible users to buy the shit phones they sell (or not, some people have been on "waitlists" for 5+ years after providing a full payment).

Granted, their phones are fully open, but have next to no apps.

Personally I'll stick with Android 12, rooted, and see what the future brings.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

In Singapore, lots of boomers are downloading scam apps from facebook lured by promises of discounts and free gifts, handing out accessibility privileges, and they'll even argue vehemently against loved ones and bank staff when confronted. When it all inevitably blows up, they blame absolutely everyone except themselves, including praising Apple for some reason.

Being the largest voting block, they managed to get banks responsible for reimbursing their losses and there was even an idea floated of getting everyone to contribute to a shitty scam insurance fund. Many major banking apps are paranoid af and block usage from simple things like usb debugging turned on.

Absolutely stupidity. And there's nothing we can do about it when the politicians love them so much.

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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

effectively pushing users to install apps only through the Google Play Store

I wonder what this will mean for Aurora and Fdroid etc.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One of the reasons why I got a Android over ios :(

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what I can tell, all of this shit is on Google versions of Android. If you are on AOSP such as lineage or graphene, from what I understand this has no effect whatsoever.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

But this is not the only aspect of Google's autocratization; Apps who's developers have enabled the Google Play Integrity APIs will not run on custom roms.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The restrictions on apk access over the past 10 years have already been an annoying pita. Many of the best power user apks have had to gut themselves over their original functionality, all while obtaining root access over your owned devices has become harder or next to impossible.

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