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Google's assault on F-Droid has begun
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This will effectively kill android as a platform for general purpose computing. A lot of users are going to just... not install software if it's sufficiently annoying, and devs are going to gradually stop developing stuff if there just aren't a lot of users. The future of android is gambling skinner boxes. And you can be damned sure that they're going to stick that shit into dumbphones if enough people drop out of using smartphones.