Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly
atocci@lemmy.world 5 months agoThey probably mean, for example, not having to prompt the user to allow installs from “unknown sources”, allowing alternative app stores to update apps and themselves automatically in the background like Google Play does, allow installations from alternative stores with one tap without extra user interaction, etc.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I must have had an extension at the time, but it sounds like F-Droid does automatic updates for anything Android 12+ now?
f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html
I guess the nag screen can be scary, though. Good point
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.
Or even once.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I really don’t know how to feel about it
The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience
I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
I feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.
But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I just tested it by updating something and it didn’t work, so I would say no, we don’t have background updates on F-Droid.