• Lifter
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    2 hours ago

    What I meant was that the phone operating system has SDKs (e.g. google services on android) which the app uses to make sure it hasn’t been tampered with, which makes it even harder to make an open source client.

    It’s the opposite of supplying an SDK for third party developers.

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      2 hours ago

      Or even run the app as is on a “non-compliant” os - like a rooted android.