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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Google allows that though or do they mean access of Google Play via 3rd party apps?

Not that I am saying it might not be necessary to include Google from the start, sets a good precedence and prevents a future where they might go the Apple route.

Just hope both Google and Apple won’t restrict opening up to Japanese market only. But who am I kidding, they will.

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petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk manually.
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- TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Downloading F-Droid from Google Play kind of defeats the purpose of F-Droid.
  
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  - unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You can still verify the install even if it went through the play store no? Or are apps on the playstore not signed by the developer?
    
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    TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You’re still putting a measure of trust into Google with that, rather than just trusting F-Droid.
    
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- NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.
  
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  - maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.
    
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themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If they didn’t open up to anyone else when EU implemented it back in March/April, they won’t do it now.

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