RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116261526543583522
The reason I joined the Android team in 2010, and that since 2008 I’ve carried Android not iOS devices, was that I could just download software. And other people could download mine.
This new process is a massive breaking of faith with the community.
To be fair, every year or two Apple ratchets up the difficulty of downloading Mac apps.
The doors on every open platform are swinging closed, fast or slow. Capitalism is broken. Another reason we need to protect the Web.
Feaugh.
We can't depend on any commercial OS. We already have more than suitable options on desktop, but the state of open source mobile OS is really bad, and evolving to terrible.
We need a fully open source mobile OS with great hardware and app support ASAP.
