{"id":8708,"date":"2026-03-07T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/google-is-closing-android-37-organizations-published-an-open-letter-to-google-opposing-android-developer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:56:42","slug":"google-is-closing-android-37-organizations-published-an-open-letter-to-google-opposing-android-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/google-is-closing-android-37-organizations-published-an-open-letter-to-google-opposing-android-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Closing Android. 37 organizations, published an open letter to Google opposing Android Developer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/9Nb0KRN9AuK7XIuldbMUhkXaFJjUNohkL6jOUe6hLyU.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=28c4c328ff3fe54a5366b0124d7af49c31a5135c\" alt=\"Google Is Closing Android. 37 organizations, published an open letter to Google opposing Android Developer Verification, a program that would require all developers to register with Google before distributing apps on Android starting September 2026, but Google misunderstandingly has not backed down.\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; does this deserve the viral status?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1rn5v50\/google_is_closing_android_37_organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hivemind has decided: this is today&#8217;s top content. What do you think &#8211; does this deserve the viral status?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1rn5v50\/google_is_closing_android_37_organizations\/","_sweary_views":29893,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}