Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoGoogle Search, Chrome, and Android are all changing thanks to EU antitrust lawwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down11
arrow-up1146arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Search, Chrome, and Android are all changing thanks to EU antitrust lawwww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-29 months agoGoogle Play Services and Google Play should be denominated to a normal, installable apps. “Choose your web browser” should include “I’ll install different one myself”, as it also forces using Google Play for updates. Webview should be installable. Default messaging app should not have fixed links to Google’s proprietary RCS servers (btw, RCS should be just build in to base Android).
minus-squareleaskovski@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoIsn’t that RCS comment a problem because the networks are just lazy shits and didn’t want RCS, so Google just went and covered for them?
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThey’re not lazy, they all had their own standards they were pushing.
Google Play Services and Google Play should be denominated to a normal, installable apps.
“Choose your web browser” should include “I’ll install different one myself”, as it also forces using Google Play for updates.
Webview should be installable.
Default messaging app should not have fixed links to Google’s proprietary RCS servers (btw, RCS should be just build in to base Android).
Isn’t that RCS comment a problem because the networks are just lazy shits and didn’t want RCS, so Google just went and covered for them?
They’re not lazy, they all had their own standards they were pushing.