didn’t i tell you Google is using the #sideloading ban to side-step labor issues?

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

didn’t i tell you Google is using the #sideloading ban to side-step labor issues? it’s actually worse:

google wants to #aislop and monopolize all #android apps.

so, not only they don't want to deal with developers as contract workers on their appstore ―that’s the whole point of forcing ID, to shoo away the vast majority of developers who aren’t incorporated as businesses. they now want to wipeout said developers and own all the apps.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/932364/google-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026

previously
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116562329969327882

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@blogdiva god *damn* that is a bleak piece of news

[lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town]

@blogdiva Once again for all the hackers in the room:

WE NEED TO HARD FORK ANDROID RIGHT GODDAMN NOW AND DE-GOOGLE THE ENTIRE FUCKING ECOSYSTEM OF IT.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@xgranade @blogdiva

I... I gotta get a new phone.

<sigh>

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@xgranade @blogdiva

not many choices out there, and phones have become as essential as watches were when hourly wages and work-shifts started

Motorola is working on using Graphene OS, and Ubuntu still has that one going, I think

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva ha ha ha ha ha while tech hipsters are making fun of the incompetence of Copilot and clownery of Claude, they always seem to conveniently miss the "do no evil" crowd flying Captain Geminis right at all the skyscrapers... I standby the prediction that Gemini will be the monopolistic BS generator used by the masses as it will be baked into all Google's other mass used products as they already rely on spying on everyone who uses it for an get tons of ad revenue already.