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Any android devs: Please add your support for a developer strike on the play store should DeveloperID pass. (github.com)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/android@lemdro.id
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[–] auzy1@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lol.

Are these guys going to strike on iOS too?

I'm sure this strike will be super effective at self sabotage

The big issue is that Android play store and iOS is a monopoly

A strike won't fix that. What is really needed is a tier 1 phone with another app store which pays developers better, is easy to port to and is an alternative option . There is very little incentive for users to use a store that might not exist in 5 years and a strike of 100 devs won't fix that.

Google will always maintain control over Android. The solution imho is to try to get sailfish ported to the latest phones. Or even a framework like phone (like one of the manufacturers planned years ago but never released)

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The first comment on the issue is hilarious…

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Right? What were they smoking?

[–] MaXimus421@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might as well start a online petition, because that's how effective this will be.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah. The only thing that will happen is that people will switch to competitors.

If we actually want to make a dent on google and apple, it would be better to help port sailfish to the latest phones.

That offers Android support, and adds more competition

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While I agree with the concept of this project, I definitely agree with what Marc said on on the page.

This will be a double-edged sword for anyone who wanted to involve themselves with that pledge because chances are, unless they are a huge application that has a major user base, The concerns that he gave with Google just deprioritizing the list in search is absolutely valid.

The solution to that, if there was enough pledges for doing it, would be keeping the list private until it's to the point of it being large enough that Google couldn't de-prioritize it on a large scale, but that risks the following of less visibility of who's on the list and how much support the project has. plus if the project never gets a reasonable amount of developers on it, like he said, it can be used as ammunition of, well, it's just a few very vocal outliers so obviously it's not that big of a deal

it's a sticky situation because as a dev, I fully agree with their cause, the forced developer verification is absolutely bullshit, But I also realize that Google has a pseudo-monopoly on applications on Android, unless you have a fairly significant user base, who are willing to go through the steps of installing a third-party launcher such as f-droid. It will pretty rapidly kill both discovery and engagement with your app.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

That's why it's called a strike, I guess.