alt Hacker News> "dismiss more scare screens"
This whole website is a scare screen. There's a lot that is not being said on this page, such as the advantages of the new system, and the motivations of the authors of this site.
There's a reasonable discussion to be had about trade-offs here, but this is entirely one sided, in somewhat bad faith in my personal opinion.
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Sometimes reality is one sided, I personally see zero advantage to the new system.
And I don't see how this change adresses the number one source of scams, the Play Store.
I agree. I don't like the idea of Android being locked down, but the conversations around this topic are tipping into disingenuous.
Your phone is still yours, you can still install third party apps, and you can still develop apps without a verification. But now there's a one-off hurdle to install them.
Not ideal, but when we think of the people that it's trying to protect, this feels like a reasonable middle ground.
I don't really understand your argument here, isn't Google's announcement also entirely one sided? I also don't see any "discussion" of disadvantages of their solution in their announcements. For example, the "over 50 times more malware" stat is stated without any source at all, same with "Most of your users’ download experience will not change at all" (inb4 I don't care about power users at all). Not to mention stats about scam-by-sideloaded app, anything that would suggest that the proposed solution is going to work.
The point of "keepandroidopen.org", in my understanding, is to be a quick PSA on why the author of the website thinks this is a problem with some call-to-action. It's not supposed to be a place for discussion, it's at best a discussion starter, one of the sides of the discussion to consider. Obviously they present their side, as Google has presented their side.
And anyway, how are users supposed to hold this "reasonable discussion" with a corporation? I know that Google had some sort a feedback form about this, and that they made some changes, but that is not a discussion. I didn't really actually see any "reasonable discussion" being held on this topic ever, anywhere, ever, nor do I really see how it would happen. I don't even really see a good reason for Google to hold such a discussion. It's a decision made by a corporation, about their product, after all.
Could you present your how you see this "reasonable discussion" being had? Where? How?