Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@kepstin @LexYeen @grote The analogy I like to use is to imagine an old flour mill, with the loading door 30 feet in the air accompanied by an overhanging hook used to hold a hoist.

App stores are like loading flour by hoisting bags up to the virtually inaccessible loading door.

But if you just toss a bag of flour over your shoulder, walk in through the side door and go upstairs with it, no problem. That's side-loading!

[gunchleoc@mastodon.scot]

@deborahh @grote @gnomon It does say with biometrics or PIN, so you use your normal login method.

The whole thing is still though

[me@mastodon.cysioland.pl]

@AlisonW @LexYeen @grote it's a violation in Poland and when a driver runs you over while you're jaywalking you get a ticket

[lexlohr@chaos.social]

@grote It is about time the EU intervened. Setting up unreasonable hurdles to access third party apps is enforcing the own part of the duopoly of smartphone operating systems.

[theycallmehacked@social.tchncs.de]

@tootbrute @grote https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@TheyCallMeHacked @grote i live in Taiwan. They do not sell them here. Don't sell Jolla either.

Not sure if Furiphone can be shipped here. I need to register to look at my shopping cart there weirdly.

[chand_v_post@mastodon.social]

@WAHa_06x36 @grote thanks for the explanation.
I feel like google did not think about real tools to help people beside make as hard as possible to use 3rd party software.
No anti virus (that windows has it), no isolation tools, app verifier, only google protect but not sure about it (is it enough) .

[vitskalicky@fosstodon.org]

@grote
1. Keep forcing every serious developer to register with Google and accept their terms
2. Make it look like a security and safety feature

[enigmavoice@mastodon.ml]

@grote feels like there should be a "do a backflip" bulletin somewhere along the way.

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@LexYeen @grote
Yeah, it's just a computer. It's specifically *your* computer. They have created a disparaging term for running the software you want on your own computer.

[matejrokos@social.vivaldi.net]

@TimWardCam @tedmielczarek @grote I think it opens opportunity for linux phones. Purism, Jolla, Volla, postmarketOS... Apps work both on desktop and phones, saving costs all around.

[luboganev@androiddev.social]

@grote he lost me first when calling it that made up term instead of installing. Then lost me again by holding a microphone in his fingers in a video.... I find this trend so distracting and silly lol.

[castaway@fosstodon.org]

@benjistokman how is "close down android" different from reboot (which is turn off and restart)?

[aerique@genart.social]

@oatrapado @Frenezul0_o @grote 🫩

[okias@floss.social]

@grote taking the freedom slice by slice.

Somehow reminds me Xiaomi phone "e-waste" laying in the shelf, where I needed to wait 3 weeks, with SIM card in it, but it doesn't unlock anyway because "unknown reason". I'm sure it's intended to make me more safe!

For the first phase, one day wait is good start to get there.

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@grote dark, dark patterns in the dark, dark smartphone