Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by anoncake on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:12PM
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> You don't do business, banking, dating, note taking, drawing, stock trading, etc. on them.)
Because it's artificially made impossible. No computer should be artificially restricted – let's not keep any loopholes open for no reason.
Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:08PM
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> You can "protect" consumers with a permissions model and malware signature warnlist regardless of whether you enforce a store.
I’ll believe it when I see an alternative to iOS devices that my dad can’t get malware on and only need a few seconds to fix by uninstalling an app or power cycling the device.
No general computing company should be the single ingress point to running on their platform. For platforms with significant penetration, this is a market monopoly. [1]
For Apple, it's iOS and, increasingly, MacOS.
For Google, it's Android, and as has become glaringly obvious, Chrome. They shouldn't be allowed to run a browser.
The DOJ needs to stamp out this anti-competitive, anti-consumer behavior.
You can "protect" consumers with a permissions model and malware signature warnlist regardless of whether you enforce a store. Microsoft does it. Microsoft is the only company playing fairly.
([1] And no, this doesn't apply to game consoles. They're toys with lots of alternatives. You don't do business, banking, dating, note taking, drawing, stock trading, etc. on them.)