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by kstenerud 60 days ago
Remember the days when you could just run whatever software you wanted on your hardware?
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I feel like this is captures the point very well. Google removing this software, means that for 99% of the users on the platform, the choice to play this gets taken away from user.
I remember when you had to build the hardware before you could run anything. But I’m not sure that’s super relevant to app stores.
people under 25: no
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