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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[-] bigFab@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

On top of what Aatube says about secret unfair deals, Google's Play Store is necessary to run essential social services. In my case I need it to download my banking app and to sign into my university's online studies.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even something as simple as the Wikipedia app checks to see if Google Play Services is installed and running before it'll let you use it.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Needing an app to sign into uni

Jesus fucking hell. Bet it's propriety.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Need an app to configure good ol' eduroam wifi too, but that one's on F-Droid at least

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Need an app to configure good ol' eduroam wifi too

I'm pretty sure you don't, or at least didn't, it's just much more of a hassle to configure

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

In theory you don't. In practice I couldn't get working with the 6 page step for step tutorial.

It is almost impossible to get it working without the app.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, well in that case, even better

[-] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But that won't necessarily change with this ruling right? Your government doesn't need to change how their apps function because of this.

[-] bigFab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really hope you'r wrong on that. Anyways, it's a pleasure to see Google bleeding.

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