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Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage) (c.org)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 208 points 2 months ago (13 children)

A 24hr waiting period to use a competitor's product has to be one of the most blatant anti-competitive behaviour in history.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

    Oh well can't change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It's a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren't clairvoyant.)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If only there were some way to change the ancient text. Some sort of amend-sion. Surely our benevolent leaders would have figured something like that out by now. I guess we'll just have to keep voting and hoping every four years

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I am not from the US but can't you interpret the first amendment in a way that would work here?

    Code is just information and you could argue that a platform is infringing on private free speech.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    i am American, and yes we have a long history of interpretation that is expansive. the problem is we have narrow minded people running the institutions now who don't even want the narrow interpretations to be in effect so they do everything possible to limit them.

    if you pay attention long enough you will see them use one argument to get their way, then later use the opposite to get their way on a different issue. there is no moral consistency because morality is just s tool to them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I‘m curious I read the petition and didn‘t see mention of „24h waiting“ anywhere could you tell me what you‘re referring to?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The 24h wait period is a part of the so-called "advanced flow" which will become the only way to install apps not verified by google once their new rules go into effect, as described here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

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