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by econ13 hours ago |
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upvoteby r_lee11 hours ago|
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I'd usually say it'd be far fetched

but I can totally see Google banning developers and removing their apps for political reasons, where some lobbying group bombs them with emails

because with this they're explicitly saying they're now choosing who gets to be in or out, there's no way for them to say we can't do anything about it

I do think this would improve security, but I also think it's sort of a Trojan horse to lock down the ecosystem

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upvoteby nok22kon11 hours ago|
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> several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK were deleted from the U.S. tech giant's App Store.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-demands-explana...

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upvoteby surajrmal4 hours ago|
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Banning it from the app store is different from banning from distributing their app on any surface. It's closer to Walmart choosing to not carry a product vs the government saying no one may carry that product. Of course both can happen for political reasons but generally the latter is a bigger hammer applied less often.
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upvoteby stingraycharles12 hours ago|
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Isn’t Google going to do what Apple has been doing since forever? Or is Google somehow doing something worse?
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upvoteby RobotToaster12 hours ago|
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I bought an android instead of an apple because I didn't want the kind of malware apple has always shipped with idevices
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upvoteby jb28212 hours ago|
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Apple's policies were established when you purchased the phone. Apps come through registered developers and their vetting.

Google has changed the game on something you already own. I'm sure their lawyers have done their homework, but in some jurisdictions this is certainly actionable.

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upvoteby someonebaggy12 hours ago|
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They already lost a lawsuit and were fined a hundred billion dollars in the EU for locking down Android. Maybe they think since they already lost once, they can't lose again.
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upvoteby WarmWash3 hours ago|
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Google had an open (but maybe not perfectly open) platform and is paying out billions in anti-competitive fines because of it.

None of the other platform vendors with totally closed platforms are paying out anything.

So with even a room temperature business IQ, it's pretty clear that closed platforms are the best way to do business, and court rulings in both the US and EU have affirmed this multiple times over the last decade.

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upvoteby surajrmal5 hours ago|
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This is the remediation to that case and therefore has already been run by the EU. Notably, Apple did not get fined for the way they run their ecosystem which is far more locked down.
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upvoteby hurfdurf11 hours ago|
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Hundred billion would be a quarter's revenue, that can't be right. The lasest I've read is a threat of a fine of around 500mil wrt app store issues back in December, but nothing has been decided yet.
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upvoteby r_lee11 hours ago|
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hundred billion?
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upvoteby lern_too_spel4 hours ago|
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No, you're still allowed to install whatever apps you want, whether they're verified or not, from the system app stores or not. What developer verification brings is the ability to install apps outside the system app stores without a warning, as required by the antitrust judgment against Google.

People here are complaining about a separate thing, which is that the process for installing an app outside a blessed way is changing, becoming harder for the first such installation and easier for subsequent installations on new devices.

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upvoteby nok22kon11 hours ago|
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nothing guarantees the Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu/RedHat will not push an update through their infrastructure to delete some software from your computer

all OSes have malware level capabilities. it's literally the definition of an OS

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upvoteby kuschku10 hours ago|
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> Ubuntu/RedHat

That still wouldn't affect projects like Debian or Arch, but going even further, they can't push through updates anyway. Nothing forces me to install updates, it's an active choice to do so.

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