[darkmighty]

I really wish commercial apps would support alternative app stores. There are far worse offenders than Google, but it's currently quite intrusive and who knows if it won't get worse. I doubt the billions in rent they must collect every year on app sales really go on improving the OS experience.

F-droid repository format would be easy enough to support a commercial repository you could manually activate, with signing and all.

[londons_explore]

> I doubt the billions in rent they must collect every year on app sales really go on improving the OS experience.

Google has huge numbers of engineers working on Android...

Although I do kinda wonder exactly what they're working on, considering each release of Android seems to be not very different from the previous one...

[kodah]

The larger the number of product devs, and the larger footprint of the product, the more people you need supporting them with tooling and infrastructure of various types.