“”“Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety”””
Another step in google’s long march to become a worse company. A phone has long since become an essential gateway to mandatory aspects of life, and Google wants more control.
This one-time unlock process is a lot better than just “go pound sand” like the first iteration of this security policy
As a former it guy i have some knowledge about how the scammers get gullible users to install a malware app. This process is actually trying to twart their common tactics
Power users will be annoyed, Google will have a framework in place to further restrict apps, and people will still be scammed.
What framework? This is just a more complicated procedure to switch the same “allow install from untrusted sources” setting.
They can just lockdown android to allow only play store apps at any moment
