It's like they don't understand what's possible to be coerced into from there. They cite "danger to users" as the rationale, but their imagination of danger is so damn limited
"Here's why Google is bad"
Classic HN
Surely you must see the other side of this in that there is massive fraud taking place via Android phones?
Most privately installed apps are for open source degoogled software that doesn't want to bother with Google.
I wouldn't pretend to understand the Android app ecosystem better than Google.
A charitable guess would be that Google understands that forcing developer registration will introduce more risk for some people, but overall the total risk over the entire population is reduced. It's a net benefit.
gnabgib•1h ago