Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules

platypus_plumba@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except they actually don’t in this case. You’re free to release a browser with any engine you choose on Android and distribute it through the Play Store.

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• 520@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They literally don't though. They don't try to police sideloaded apps or georestrict other browsers

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  • gray@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t police sideloading?

    apnews.com/…/google-epic-games-antitrust-trial-an…

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    • dai@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My takeaway from that article is they don’t, and haven’t.

      The splash screen for installing a package not from the play store is there to protect the end user. Without it there would probably be a much worse unwanted software issue on android.

      I’ve been “side loading” or just “installing” applications on my android devices since the nexus one, without the help of the play store.

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      • gray@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not what the lawsuit is about. Google made backdoor deals to pay developers to release on the play store instead of their own 3rd party app store. They were found at fault for anti-competitive behavior.

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    • 520@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don't. They discourage it on the consumer end, but that also has good safety reasons behind it. They go a little too far in pushing people to Play Store over other app stores, and require basically any phone with Google Services to have Play Store, but that's a different matter.

      They've never tried to dictate rules on what sideloaders can and can't do like Apple has.

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      • HelloHotel@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolutely, around android 6, it got real annoying to install 3rd party apps, settings called it somthing like “install apps from places other than the google play store”.

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    • Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That article specifically mentions that Google doesn’t restrict installing apps from sources other than their store.

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• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, but see, that’s okay because they’re the ones doing it and they’re totally not gonna be evil, nope, not them

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They got rid of the dont be evil line.

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