Personally, it’s not Google’s place to dictate how an app verification ecosystem works. If a company has developed an app, they need to be the ones to make sure it’s secure in the first place, not trusting a monopolist tech company that has almost all control with how someone uses their phone.

Google has rules yes, but Android is open-source and should be open with a free & open market for apps. After all, we paid for the device.

Nintendo is one of the worst companies that always want to set an “example” about the DMCA. They don’t realize they are fighting a battle they cannot win. Emulators are perfectly legal as long as the emulators don’t contain any code that was in ownership from them.

That being said, I’m betting some of those forks were following the DMCA but Nintendo still shut them down. This is where copyright needs to be reevaluated.

I’m honestly not surprised they haven’t gone after dolphin emulator since those devs contain the encryption keys to play the iso files.

Don’t give them any ideas. They are watching the forums 😂