'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

Jimmc414 37 points 9 comments August 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

ColdStream

It is funny how we have two storm fronts here. Google trying to lock down apps to only Google approved developers, and legal decisions to open up alternative app stores that would potentially use apps that are not Google approved. One wonders which side will win this one? All I know is, I still want my F-Droid with apps that Google doesn't have power over.

benoau

What a day for app store regulation: when it rains it pours as the saying goes.

Jimmc414

https://archive.is/1G6uQ

p0w3n3d

Quoting BoJack Horseman ``You've been adjudicated''

alightsoul

I am not sure I am against app verification. I almost installed an APK that was a banking infostealer. Is there really no other way? Microsoft fixed this with a built in virus scanner on Windows

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