Unless they exclusively stick to small regional airports, this is guaranteed to make our airports even worse.
This is also going to fuck with the money, not just the airlines, but the business travelers.
Oh, and it’s definitely going to ruin a lot of lives, so that’s also pretty bad.
All APKs will need a valid Google developer signature.
Doesn’t matter if it’s installed from GitHub or F-Droid, no signature, no installation.
All APKs will require a signed developer certificate.
I doubt they will be signing keys for developers who circumvent Google’s services, or that violate their ToS.
They’re copying this scheme from Apple in Europe, when it was forced to allow other app stores.
In that case, Apple revoked certificates for apps it didn’t like, such as P2P/torrents. Mind you, these were NOT apps that were not hosted on Apple’s App Store.
They already created a separate company to assume the liability related this lawsuit years ago. I believe the bankruptcy court ruled against them on this, but that shows you the length they’re willing to go to not pay out.
I would be shocked if this wasn’t just kicked around for years, until eventually SCOTUS establishes new legal precedent to further help shield large corporations from this type of liability.
That’s not what they said.
They’re just pointing out that Trump Trump will be able to leverage the situation and enact an even more fascist agenda.
That’s not saying the left shouldn’t do anything, rather just be prepared for the consequences.
I’ve been to plenty of small regional airports where you could stick a bunch of those turds and they wouldn’t be able to cause too much of a disturbance, aside from kidnapping a bunch of the janitorial staff and service workers.
Which is probably better than them gunning down people in the middle of LAX, on top of them kidnapping even more janitorial staff and service workers.