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Yes but fdroid is facing restrictions while adb is not

sure, google is trying to cash in. not saying theyre nice people. but the handwringing over semantics and suggesting Google has a master plan to abuse vocabular just sounds ridiculous

So you do know, they want to make profit.

You also know, what is commonly used for making profit? PR.

And they are all about changing the meaning of words, to achieve a certain effect in people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

What exactly is ridiculous to the idea, that maybe there was a google meeting where the name was debated and the pro and cons of different names evaluated from their buisness perspective?

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