Commission provides guidance to Google for AI interoperability on Android and sharing of Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act
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Today, the European Commission has issued two sets of binding specification measures to Google under the Digital Markets Act.
      • AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        yes I understand, but I was just mentioning that the process is convoluted for everyone involved. people tend to forget the troubles of devs and maintainers.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      No, that convoluted process will let people install the apps directly from play store. The process to “sideload” (not really sideloading but let’s just say it is for simplicity) is a different convoluted process.

      • AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        In addition to demanding payment of a registration fee and agreement to their (non-negotiable and ever-changing) terms and conditions, Google will also require the uploading of personally identifying documents, including government ID, by the authors of the software, as well as enumerating all the unique “application identifiers” for every app that is to be distributed by the registered developer.

        The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

        (implying that even non-play store apps needs Devs to give their info to google)

        source: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

        granted, this is a secondary source, but it does link the primary source within the quoted text.

        • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          There are to separate flows. One flow is for developers to register with google. That’s the one you described. There’s another flow for Android users to install apps from unregistered devs (“sideload” app).