Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

[gabboman@gabboman.xyz]

I can send my famiky a link to an apk and they can install it.

Now its no longer an option

[katherine_montalto@zirk.us]

@serk @grote so I have a degoogled os, no Google play store. I'm still going to be able to get apps right? This is just a problem for play store?

[2something@transfem.social]

@grote@chaos.social While this is not good, it is a lot less bad than I was expecting. I thought they were going to make it so you have to unlock the bootloader and install a distro to install apps Google doesn't approve of, which would make it unavailable on the vast majority of phone.

[glennmagusharvey@app.wafrn.net]

The bigger problem is that a number of those devs are gonna stop work on those apps because of this.

Fuck Google.

[barefootstache@en.osm.town]

@terminaltilt @valpackett @old_angry_queer @grote

Am I missing a new Android feature, can one sign into the device with biometrics after rebooting?

[snosrapkungfu@mastodon.social]

@Dequei @stw @grote i'm on the FLX1S from furios and not looking back.

[marinheiro@ciberlandia.pt]

@grote Does this automatically kill off Aurora Store access?

[_chris_real@kolektiva.social]

@grote

Long live DuckDuckGo. Long live Vivaldi.

The open sources are out there . . .

(Also, big praise for Lenovo's ThinkPad, who said to Microsoft, "let's call the whole thing off.")

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevenstonetech_lenovo-is-switching-the-default-os-on-thinkpads-activity-7430983261776109568-g_4-

[doctormo@floss.social]

@eestileib @stw @grote

I'm still using my S5. I'm aiming to use it until it's old enough to drink. Not long now!

[bangskij@climatejustice.social]

@grote guess I'm never buying a new phone ever again

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@jon_bon same here. If I can't do that, then there's really no point in not buying an iPhone. I wonder if Samsung and other Android phone makers have been asked about how this will impact their sales?

@grote @fdroidorg @IzzyOnDroidOrg @accrescent

[xgqt@functional.cafe]

@grote

I'm surprised they do not want my soul and my newborn.