What about the Vatican? Nobody expects the ~~Spanish Inquisition~~ Roman Crusaders to just go and take a claim on the Land of Canaan!
Problem is, ADB requires enabling developer mode, and guess what - my company also blocks access to devices with developer mode on! (Also, the fact that Shizuku doesn't work correctly over mobile because it requires stable Wi-Fi to fake a wireless debug connection doesn't help matters.)
Amazon still has its own app store open - mostly because it's the one Microsoft used as the base for their Android compatibility layer. I expect this ruling to give Amazon a breath of fresh air as "the alternative app store".
About the only benefit I can personally see from this is the ability to fully integrate F-Droid as an app store in my device, with proper automatic background updates, and without requiring root solutions that void my work's security measures for mobile devices. On the other hand, I can see Huawei, Amazon, and Epic jumping to the fray with their own app stores and system services, and maybe Google Play being far more lenient with subscription services like Spotify's in their own App Store. Altogether, I personally loathe Epic's approach, but appreciate the consequences of their lawsuit.
Hopefully that's the case! And hopefully somebody steps in legally in case the new developers decide to just ignore the GPL terms.
If all the developers of the GPLv3 version agree to relicense their contributions, it's unfortunately possible to close-source further versions of the source code. Does somebody know if Simple Apps accepted external contributions?
I mean, a fork is indeed possible and in progress. But the main version on the Google Play Store will almost certainly be no longer open-source.
If the next version is close-sourced, that means that it won't be published in the repository that F-Droid follows to build their version. Yeah I think you're safe.
At this point, some Capcom PR employee will be able to slip the Republic of Nayshall into existence as a prank.
Unless you use the Play Store version, in which case the tainted new versions will be coming any time soon.
Note to self, see if I can self-host Piped
I would have played on Linux a bit more if I had enough space on my partition. Good thing I recently updated to 2 terabytes!