• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    Everyone here is bummed out, but fails to see the upside.

    To rival the Play Store, there needs to be an alternative package manager on Android which hosts proprietary apps.

    The outcome is a decrease in Googles revenue and eases the hold they have on Android as a Play Store dependant operating system.

    If F-Droid didn’t step up, Epic would be the only contender to the Play Store. At least this way we know there will be some degree of democracy.

    • Vittelius@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      I don’t even read this as allowing proprietary apps. They are investigating allowing different monetarisation methods for open source apps and building open source tooling to help with that.