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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?
(www.androidpolice.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
And on another note, why is it not backwards compatible with older apps?
I've got games and a bathroom speaker I can't access because I got a new phone. Are we just expecting devs to sit there updating their apps forever to meet new stupid requirements?
Fuck the whole Android ecosystem. It's completely broken from top to bottom.
This is far from an android only problem.
It's more of a software as a service problem combined with a cloud controlled hardware problem.
That's a problem with any software. If you keep updating the OS eventually some programs are going to stop working. This is true for any OS: Linux, Unix, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS, etc. Eventually something the program relies on no longer exists or works in a way the program can't handle.
I don't see any good solutions. Options I see:
Everything seems to have drawbacks. That's one advantage of devices having dedicated hardware, and software that doesn't rely on outside hardware/services. Updates won't kill it and they can't take it away from you. Though, they still don't have to support the hardware forever so it gets harder and harder to fix as time goes on, if it's even user fixable to begin with.
Fucking Tasker isn't allowed to turn off my Bluetooth anymore because of Android's new bullshit. I hate Android with as much passion as I used to love it. When my current phone bites the dust, I'm migrating to Apple.
lmao yes apple, which all equate with freedom
the direction you want to go is linux, not to an even more fascist company