The EU could redeem itself and start pumping money into postmarketos or sailfish.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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What exactly do you think the EU is?
A largely useless collection of failed colonizers.
Failed?
I'll have you know, some of us didn't even try!
Since the 400s anyway.
Nice, just got both apps. They both look like they’re vibe coded though :/
Not listed in the article: I like Detrumpez Vous best. It has been around for a while, and yes, it is offered in English as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.detrumpezvous.app
Nice, it’s also just a barcode scanner instead of failure prone image recognition. Its index seems rather small though, first 3 items I scanned were not in the database.
Mmm. Thank you. Much better and not running in a weird integrated browser tab.
Welcome!
Re: Canada
The irony of this being about the apple and Google app stores is palpable.
How else do you want it to reach mass audience? Especially on Apple.
Word of mouth, the posters with the little grab tabs at the bottom, that one old lady who tells everyone around town the gossip including deeply personal information. Honestly, petrescatraian, are you even trying? Smh my head. Then they could download it as a CSV file to use in Libreoffice on their Linux Mint machine in the middle of Costco. /S
You had me at first half lmao
Ideally? People find FOSS apps on FOSS app platforms and on FOSS news, websites and social media. But maybe that's a pipe dream. Doesn't make their comment any less true.
obviously, not via their app stores. the EU really needs to slap them harder, especially apple in this case, for their malicious compliance.
I didn't ask you how they shouldn't get it. I asked you how they should. Like, only one way. Because even on Android, the average user is not gonna use F-Droid and using an apk file is simply not practical for many. Sure, you get users, but if your goal is to make it easier for the majority of the people, they sure as hell will not download F-Droid just for one specific app. Besides that, it is also a market opportunity. I'm sure the devs of these apps also make some good money on these.
As for Apple... sure, there is AltStore, but how many people are using it yet?
I would love to move away from Google. However, Danish security apps require Google Play for security verification so it isn't viable to move away from mainstream Android and Google Play - unless it's to Apple, which is hardly better.
No, your government should be moving away from using an american company for 'security' verification.
Hopefully this episode gives the Danish government reason enough to get away from American owned tech.
especially with google about to block freely installing any app on android