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>>fsflov+(OP)
I am the first to be on the "I own my phone let me do whatever the heck I want with it" but recently something hit me.

DJI forces you to side load their app for their Air Units and Drones. And this is scary. It looks like the rule they violate for the play store is that their app can self modify.

Let that sink in ... Any tension or whatever political bull crap happens and you have a state controlled malware on your device that can do anything it wants with your drone.

Millions of people installed this without really understanding what could be the consequences...

>>gbin+Va
The solution to this is better controls over what the DJI apps can actually do, not having Google pretend to check all apps for malicious code.

Google clearly knows this. IMO the motivation here is obvious, and it isn't security.

>>IshKeb+Bp
I find it interesting that all the things Apple did from the start in the name of security, Google is slowly needing to do over time in the name of security. Meanwhile, various parties (the EU being the big one) are pushing to have Apple role back some of these controls.

>>al_bor+AA
When a design decision has potential motivations that are based in security or anticompetitive behavior, my first guess as to Google's primary motivation is not security.