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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Google also extending this to things like fireOS

    it would not, because fireos was based on ancient versions of android like android 11 or earlier, and the block is enforced via google play services which isn’t present on there.

    but new fireos doesn’t run android apps at all. New devices temporarily run android apps on a VM hosted on AWS servers and then stream the video, but only if those apps are distributed on the amazon appstore, and it’s a stopgap until the devs make their apps compatible with the new OS.

    And old fireos devices will start to gradually uninstall “dangerous” sideloaded apks