Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google’s changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?
I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?
Google won’t be violating the law, because they are just doing the same thing that Apple does. They do technically allow third party stores, but the devs have to get Google/Apple to sign their keys.
Epic games will be allowed, because they have money to sue. Your average volunteer dev isn’t gonna have the money, nor time, to sue.
I think most devs are just gonna publish in F-Droid and let F-droid handle it. F-droid will sign all the apps under their banner, but if Google sees a Youtube alternatibe client in there, I’m guessing they’re gonna revoke the signature. And I don’t think F-Droid has the money to file a lawsuit. (Do they?)