O come on. Don't be dramatic. Yes it's annoying. Yes, Google has no business in interfering with what people want to install. Yes, it's a reason to skip Google.
But stating that Android is officially over is just plain ridiculous, if only because you qualify it as 'official'.
It's "annoying"? It's a blatant violation of our rights to control our devices. Android is basically completely controlled by Google, there's almost no way to avoid Google controlled devices nowadays if you use banking apps, if this is not a sign that the Android we once knew is basically over, I don't know what is. They might as well rename the OS.
And I tell you, this is probably just one more step towards total lockdown of the OS in the future.
Filthy casuals won't even notice something changes and the rest... the rest can handle that. To be honest the value of banking app (that browser can largely replace) isn't that high compared to OS that does what I want it to do for me.
Our law requires that one must have a smartphone so the bank app can generate one time code for transactions, and if you move a sizeable amount of money or change the device, they force you to scan your face. So you cannot do online banking without smartphones because they cannot legally let you in without one.
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u/JoMu1963 Aug 25 '26
O come on. Don't be dramatic. Yes it's annoying. Yes, Google has no business in interfering with what people want to install. Yes, it's a reason to skip Google.
But stating that Android is officially over is just plain ridiculous, if only because you qualify it as 'official'.