multiple human hands

It wasn’t weird until you specified human

Offer device makers or carriers money or perks to preinstall the Play Store

Does this cover GApps in general, I wonder?

it wanted … Google to stop being able to tie Android APIs to Google Play.

I feel this would have been really big news

The Apple case is already over, and Apple mostly won

Seems crazy that Google is forced to open up when Android is already kind of open but Apple get away with keeping iOS very closed

Offer developers money or perks to launch their apps on the Play Store exclusively or first

Lol, as if Epic got away with this given that it’s exactly what they do with PC games!

Ah that’s a shame, I guess the ones I’ve seen in the past must have been a bit simpler

And if you want to not bother with the systems you don’t have I’d imagine that would make it simpler and cheaper too

Why Google allows apps to block a system service from inputting information is beyond my understanding, but it’s absolutely infuriating, and just discourages the use of these tools.

This is the really annoying bit

That’s been the case for a long time, this xkcd is at least a decade old!

Oh yeah I do remember that one

I foolishly did that right away so I must have never seen the extra nagging

Was 10 actually alright early on in its life, or was I just unaware? I don’t remember any of the advertising and spyware crap back when I first upgraded from 7.

Don’t be hasty

Why? It’s specifically about the attempts to remaster it.

Addendum to 2: never believe that what they say is relevant to what’s actually happening here. You have a lot of faith that the people writing error messages knew what they were doing!

Never dealt with an intermittent failure or race condition, eh?

Doesn’t every company offer that? “Yeah we’re really done supporting this, but if you want to spend a million quid a month on it then sure, you can have ultra extra extended support”, then every old company that relies on this for their money-printing machine and can’t be bothered updating their ancient code sends them a blank cheque.

Maybe that bug report was the motivation for the collaboration! Or maybe the level 1 support aren’t aware of unannounced business decisions.

There’s !lordoftherings@lemmy.world and !tolkien@lemmy.world but they’re pretty dead, I’m not seeing any complaints about it being posted here though!

This is not a video which could have been an article, it is mainly side-by-side video comparisons

The point of making of open to everyone was so they’d have other traffic to hide their own secret communications amongst, right?

I was getting ready to be annoyed by this not being a meme, then found myself fascinated by a twenty minute video about something I’d never even considered!