Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

Plaidoyer pour Android en tant que plateforme libre et ouverte permettant à tous de développer des applications.

Dein Smartphone wird bald nicht mehr Dir gehören. Im September 2026 wird Google alle Android-Apps sperren, deren Entwickler sich nicht bei Google registriert haben.

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tariffs and an end to the spectre of pro-competition regulation and the threat of real browsers in the US, the EU, and around the world.