Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt’s effectively becoming the gate keeper in the same way apple only allowing app installs through its app store only is a gate keeper.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They are gatekeeping which apps you can install, not the installation method.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which is just the loophole they’re trying to use now to assert control. This is just technicalities, the end result is that if you want to make apps for others to install they want to be the final say on you being allowed to do that or not.