A new era for choice and openness (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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Today we are announcing substantial updates that evolve our business model and build on our long history of openness globally. We’re doing that in three ways: more billing options, a program for registered app stores, and lower fees and new programs for developers.

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[-] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Useless, worthless and typical corporate bullshit to distract everyone from the actual authoritarian censorship and control still being imposed by them ---> https://keepandroidopen.org/

[-] technom@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Google talking about choice and openness? Let me guess! They're going to ruin it further for the users, aren't they?

Guilt tripping queen!

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