On 06/06/2026 13:29, Hugh Frater wrote:
Malware should be the backdrop behind this move - it's an absolute joke and
Google know they need to do something about it.
I take umbrage with the statement 'You bought an Android phone because
Google told you it was open. You could install what you wanted, and that
was the deal.' - No, I bought an Android because it was cheap, as did 99.9%
of other users globally.
Hugh
I use Linux because:
1. It does not involve a cost to Microsoft. It's cheap!
2. It's Open,and continually improves because of the community behind it.
3. I don't have to install what I don't want. , And generally no-one else uses
it. Caveat: if I let my son-in-law get close to it, he installs what he wants
to use, and I always have to clean it up afterwards. My B**** Moto phone
keeps on wanting to install stupid games for me in the guise of 'updates'
Peter
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On Sat, 6 Jun 2026 at 13:21, Terry Coles<[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/06/2026 12:13, Hugh Frater wrote:
As someone who's spent ages cleaning malware and junk off relatives'
Android phones, I'd prefer it if Google actively spent more time
targeting
junk in the play store, rather than pursuing developers this way.
I genuinely don't understand why they aren't policing the Play Store...
When I read Hamish's post, I did wonder if malware was at the back of
this move from Google. It would be difficult to do anything about this
without some form of control on the quality of the code submitted to the
Play Store.
It seems to me that they have three options here:
1. Leave things as they are and spend time and money tracking down and
cleaning up the Play Store. This clearly doesn't work and would be
very difficult to do.
2. Provide for a developer network, as they appear to be doing. The
problem with this is that it requires additional spending to vet the
developers; so they have decided to charge for this.
3. As per 2. above but close the source. I suspect that's the part
that is raising the ire of the current developers but Google have
every right to do that, except if they've accepted free
contributions from developers prior to this change.
Of course Google's reasons may be more evil than I suspect and if so, I
doubt if anyone will be able to change their minds.
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