The two security features Google Play provides beyond web-installed APKs are the malware scanner that runs during app submission, and the ability to quickly delist apps that are discovered to be bad. Both could be opened up to all software sources rather easily.
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The malware scanner could run as an web-based APK-signing process, and those certificates could be revoked if malware is later discovered. This untying of Android security features from the Google Play Store would greatly advance Android’s safety as an open platform.
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And that’s it! There isn’t any magical security pixie dust achievable only with a smartphone app store monopoly. Any talk of this by platform companies is just silly propaganda.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
Real question here, you said according to an article I read, that 30% is basically too high for technically doing nothing, but do you think there would be an android 8.0 as open and as secure as you want it to be if they don't have income?
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Replying to @rmartinezdl @TimSweeneyEpic
You said you where ok with that in consoles because they sold hardware below cost, but android is free, even though it clearly has a cost as you know, fortnite is also free, but it has a cost.
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Replying to @rmartinezdl @TimSweeneyEpic
Operating systems aren't free to develop, sustain and update. What do you think about that? I really really think it's just epic not wanting to pay the cost of using android. Can you imagine if everyone said, we wanna play fortnite but we don't want to pay for skins?
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Replying to @rmartinezdl
In our estimates, Google makes vastly more money from Google Search monetization than the cost of developing Android.
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Google annual revenue is over a hundred billion dollars, which exceeds the GDP of two-thirds of the world’s countries. That’s roughly 5 million dollars in revenue per Google employee. So, Google will do just fine without a monopoly on Android software distribution.
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