Re:Rob Pike: On Bloat
by graemep on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:48AM
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Which is hugely damaging socially as it makes markets non-competitive. Its wrong in principle.
> If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance
Not true. They they have to make a deliberate choice to write an app that refuses to run if you have installed non-Google apps. It needs code written to run checks. It even lists the apps I have.
> Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.
> If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance
Not true. They they have to make a deliberate choice to write an app that refuses to run if you have installed non-Google apps. It needs code written to run checks. It even lists the apps I have.
> Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.
Not hat I have noticed.