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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
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What's the problem? This will make Aurora Store more stable
Don't get me wrong. I love Aurora store. I love what they do and I donated a couple all the counts that I no longer use to them. But that does not mean I believe that this move is correct at all in any way.
Putting aside the extremely slippery slope of forcing Google to allow app stores on their store, You have actually rather significant security issues too because of the catalog.
This means any app store that is now can now download the apps, patch them with great features or malicious features and serve them as legitimate.
Security has already been such a massive headache because no matter what you do, you just can't stop people from shooting themselves in the foot. But Android, that's their target market and they need to do their best. And this is going to be such a massive issue. Now they did say individual apps can opt out but quite frankly I doubt many are going to unless their applications like banking apps which are almost definitely going to because attestation is extremely important for stuff like that.
Pardon me if I said anything that doesn't make sense, I am using Speech to text.