This really could be a massive problem. Articles and posts suggesting that it will only ever affect a small number of users are short-sighted, at best.

If google can refuse apps by unauthorised developers, and the criteria for authorisation shifts in the way that everything else seems to shift, that could mean a wide array of apps become effectively ‘blocked’.

Right now, we’re all rightly worried about losing things like revanced. But what about when your local fascist government puts pressure on google to block the developer behind an app you like/love/need, because they made a joke about some gobshite getting shot?

It’s bad enough that apple has always been this way, I’m saying that as a long term apple user. We desperately don’t need the only current mainstream alternative going that way, too.