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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid (www.neowin.net)
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[โ€“] TeddE@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'll agree to that.

And I also think that there's no way I trust Alphabet (holding company of Google) to be the sole arbiters of who gets to run code - neither in a philosophical sense nor as a gatekeeper to one top five compute platforms used by a substantial chunk of the world population.

It absolutely does not justify creating a policy that would wholesale obliterate F-Droid, arguably one of their larger competitors.