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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by rpdillon on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:30PM (#45021647)
> Come on. Go back to a flip phone, or make your own smartphone ecosystem. The entitlement is outrageous.

This response is unreasonable. If I'm purchasing a piece of hardware, it's not outrageous that I want to be able to compile and run software on it without asking for permission. Suggesting that I instead create my own smartphone ecosystem is absurd.

Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by abullinan on Monday August 25, 2025 @11:31PM (#45021971)
No, I disagree. That was then, this is now. You run the firmware the OEM tells you to run. That’s what I mean by entitlement. And it is absurd to create your own ecosystem. That’s exactly my point. Where did this Idea that you get full control over your hardware come from? It is so wildly naive. Maybe from 1970 to 2010 you could do that with a PC, but welcome to the real world, it’s the one you chose by giving up your autonomy.

Don’t like it? Don’t by the phone. Genz mentality- whine when you don’t get what you want because it’s TOO MUCH WORK to go without. You could force Droid to reverse policy by not using it, but you’ll bend the knee and whine because you need your TikTok.

Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by msgodel on Monday August 25, 2025 @11:33PM (#45021987)
What? How does it being later in time justify OS vendors shipping malware?
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by protocolture on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:08AM (#45022838)
>1970 to 2010

These were also years in the real world.

>it’s the one you chose by giving up your autonomy.

You are advocating for giving up autonomy. The people you are replying to are advocating the opposite.

>Don’t like it? Don’t by the phone. Genz mentality-

Oblig OK Boomer. "Dont you dare complain about big corporation, just uh go without, or buy a dumb phone, or just run all your calls through some Cellular enabled raspberry pi" Why would you defend some massive corporation crushing freedom. Shouldnt you at least beg google for some money.

>You could force Droid to reverse policy by not using it, but you’ll bend the knee and whine because you need your TikTok.

Spoken like someone who has already bent the knee, and is somehow critically damaged by people discussing methods to avoid bending the knee.