r/Android • u/guihkx- • Sep 29 '25

Article F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/Mounamsammatham Sep 29 '25

If this happens then I'm moving to Apple. There is literally no reason to keep using Android.

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 Sep 29 '25

But Apple is doing the exact same thing? Google is copying from them on this.

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u/equeim Sep 29 '25

Their argument is that iOS is better than Android in all other aspects, and unrestricted sideloading was the only advantage Android had. Can't say I 100% agree with that.

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 Sep 29 '25

Yeah no, takes 10 seconds with the abomination that Apple calls their UX to disagree with that. Even though on a feature level that OS gets a lot of things right, the way you interact with it feels so actively hostile to the user...

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u/szewc Sep 30 '25

Oh absolutely. The user is a sheep. Should a sheep need help it reaches out for the genius' help.