Comment by IX-103
15 days ago
You still have the right to run whatever you want. You just have to use adb to install it, instead of letting it happen automatically.
It sucks, but it's not the end of everything...
15 days ago
You still have the right to run whatever you want. You just have to use adb to install it, instead of letting it happen automatically.
It sucks, but it's not the end of everything...
That is a very very weird spot that I would be limited to.
I can have my phone right now which has f-droid and download apps directly without requiring any other device anywhere as long as I have internet access to download the apk or I have the apk
With adb, I would need to have another specific device with me which can get real uncomfortable/ be a real breaker for a lot of times.
On top of my mind, I see myself being in the metro downloading games on f-droid to see the state of open source games, I couldn't imagine myself having a laptop in that time, and neither did I have a laptop. I just had a pc back then.
Also a huge % of people who are using f-droid right now would just not do things like adb etc. which are a huge breaker I suppose and in the end it is a huge net negative for the community/ecosystem/still goes against the right to run as I had mentioned.
But I also didn't know that adb was still enabled, I had actually thought that you genuinely couldn't run any app except google's developer registration AT ALL.
but this is also a slippery slope and what prevents them from blocking that too. unless we fight against this, it sets a really really bad precedent for them to follow/essentially dictate my hardware in the future.