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Grapheneos - apk sources?
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Why though?
Why keep it if I don't need it?
PS: Thanks for spotting the typo, fixed.
More installations through Aurora and, more critically, updates. Depending on what app we're talking about, this may be critical, particularly for financial apps.
If I need more installation I can install Aurora back. I do not know how frequently you install apps for me it is very, once a month at most.
Regarding critically typically apps do warn you when it's the case, including financial apps. Usually if it's truly critical they'll stop working until you do update.
True, app installations don't happen very often for me either, but I don't see the harm in keeping Aurora around for it.
Typically these notifications are there to let you know that your app is terribly outdated and about to run into a breaking change (incompatibility between app and web-backend), not for security issues. I think it's very ill-advised to wait for something like that to happen, but you do you.
Banks sole business is making money by managing others people money, consequently I do imagine that they estimate that whatever they put online is safe enough and insured enough not be pragmatically speaking creating any risk for their consume. I imagine, and maybe naively so, that it's a well enough regulated business so that if "shit happens" it's on the bank to cover, not the customer.
I rarely find myself defending banks, but here we go. ;) They will argue (as I do) that it is gross negligence on the side of the customer not to keep software updated. And if they can prove that you were using outdated software (which will be simple, based on the logs connected to your account): no, they need not cover any damages arising from you not keeping up to speed on security updates. That's part of your due diligence.
They can revoke usage. Say if you use app version 7 and the required app is version 8 then no transaction can be done. The app can be installed yet unusable. So it's not because the app is installed and outdated that functionalities have to remain usable. Gaming servers do that all the time.
I'm pretty sure they already do that, not "just" warnings.