Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

• circledot@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [Installing software] will still be possible but the apps themselves will need to be signed by the developer through Google, so Google ultimately still controls what can be installed. Maybe someone will crack it.

  Fixed that for you :-)

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• devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a great way to workaround them being forced to open the ecosystem a little and allowing alternative stores and that stuff. It only took more than a decade, they obviously not happy about it, so gotta screw people in another way.

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  • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s apple. Android has traditionally allowed sideloading. They aren’t be forced to open up anything, they’re just adding restrictions.

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