>Earlier this week, Google quietly rolled out a feature that adds a string of metadata to all APK files (that's the file type for Android apps) when they are signed by the developer. You can't install an application that hasn't been signed during its final build, so that means that all apps built using the latest APK Signature Scheme will have a nice little chunk of DRM built into them. And eventually, your phone will run a version of Android that won't be able to install apps without it.
Thoughts?
Google is adding DRM to all Android apps
Nathan Kelly
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Eli James
Understandable if your trying to protect the non tech savvy masses from chinese viruses.
The ppl who want to install APKs from different sources will still find a way.
You can root and/or install another rom.
Grayson Stewart
Forgot source, sorry.
androidcentral.com
Jaxon Parker
It's pretty sad how capitalism allows for free platforms to become completely locked down. Funny enough, Linux now has majority marketshare for the consumer yet they have less freedom and productivity than completely closed Windows.
Jeremiah Myers
They are trying to avoid people from downloading fake/modded apps. It's similar to the signature thing, but that only works when updating an app. They aren't implementing this for apps downloaded outside the Play Store (at least I hope they wont)
David Ross
I doubt Google would stop people from trying to sideload apps, but I'm a bit worried about them trying to stop modded apps. I got an Android phone partly because it's easy to pirate apps, but if Google adds DRM to apps, that would be bad. I mean, PC games already have Denuvo cancer on them.
Nathan Moore
What a fucking retard you are, to blame capitalism for this. A company made a platform and they themselves made it open source, they are free to do with it as they please. It didn't fall from the sky, they are still the proprietors. It wasn't made by a government, it cannot be controlled by a government, and you cannot dictate to a company what to do with itself as an outsider. Get used to it, you moron, this is the way the world works in general as long as property and privacy exist, and has nothing to do with capitalism.
I honestly hope America will get a taste of communism and socialism, just to see the real filth and squalor that inevitably results. After that will come an age when communists get lynched in the streets.
Liam Taylor
Kill yourself, capitalist bootlicker.
Aaron White
Come give us a visit in Eastern Europe, you faggot. You'll see what communists will make of your country, given a chance.
People like you are the worst kind of filth, you are slaves who wish to be leashed because you cannot live your lives on your own, you do not want to be held responsible for your lives, decisions, actions and thus not be held responsible for your wellbeing. You are literally worse than dogs.
Come to the former block, sing some praise to the regime. It's a quick way to be put out of your misery and die on socialist land.