Google reverses course after blocking Nextcloud Files app

The problem is Google will probably do it again once the press has moved on. Nextcloud directly competes with a bunch of Google&#x27;s own offerings and clearly its very popular given the amount of users of the app. They will restrict this again in the future.<p>I moved to F droid and now my app works as its meant to and I don&#x27;t see much reason to move back to Play store updates.

To all those people on the previous HN discussions that were saying that Nextcloud was responsible because they did not use the Android APIs properly... seems like Google proved you wrong:<p>&gt; Andy Schertzinger, Director of Engineering at Nextcloud, confirmed this to The Register, saying, &quot;Google has decided to restore the permissions to our Android app so we can bring back the full file syncing functionality.&quot;

<i>&quot;a more privacy-aware replacement&quot;</i><p>The irony, audacity and hypocrisy of Google objecting based on &quot;privacy&quot; just reeks.

Google - if you&#x27;re out there - thanks. <i>(Followup to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43971677">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43971677</a>)</i>

And how many other, smaller apps didn&#x27;t get the media attention and are still getting screwed over by Google?<p>Maybe the EU DMA will have some effect on this bullshit but I&#x27;m a bit of a cynic at this point.