Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules
gray@pawb.social 9 months agoThey don’t police sideloading?
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.
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”.
That article specifically mentions that Google doesn’t restrict installing apps from sources other than their store.
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.
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.
Flipper@feddit.de 9 months ago
That’s a pot calling a kettle black. Epic is doing the same thing with there store.
gray@pawb.social 9 months ago
dai@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You posted a question about Google policing sideloading, then posted an article that has nothing to do with google policing side loading.
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