Saagar Jha
(replying to Saagar Jha)
We have existing mechanisms to remove malware from the Play Store. This is nothing new! Old apps which exhibit bad behavior can be removed selectively. Apps that use problematic APIs do so because Android allows them to. That can stop being the case! Why was this not scoped?
Saagar Jha
(replying to Saagar Jha)
I *know* this is more work. I really do. But you have to do it. Look, I’m sorry I didn’t mention this to you all when I was at Google. I’m telling you know, and I hope you undo this before someone sideloads something they shouldn’t have. I was waiting for an example to show…
Saagar Jha
(replying to Saagar Jha)
The alternative is people write about how Android doesn’t do backwards compatibility and probably a news story about a sideloaded game that infects people. That, I assure you, will be worse than whatever this change is aiming to improve.