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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading (f-droid.org)

submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/android@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/65174

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38001927

In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've got some bad news...

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, obviously apple was like that since the first iphone, but if it's all walled gardens, nothing matters anymore. Well, maybe I'd try a linux phone first.

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is that Apple is even worse when it comes to its walled garden practices and locked-in bundled software. For example, in Android you can at least choose amongst alternative apps for SMS, etc. And some are even open source, and available in the official store. But in Apple devices you can't compete with iMessage, by policy. It's simply not allowed. Even from a technical standpoint it's not possible either, since they don't even offer an API for a third party iOS app to handle SMS/MMS/RCS. And that's just 1 example.

So you are jumping from the pan to the fire if you go from Android to iOS. Even if you are ok giving up the "sideloading" aspect, you are still worse off with Apple anyway.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

What about those Xiaomi and other "versions" of android?

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[–] Matt@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago

If it has Google Play Services, it will be affected. Custom ROMs like Graphene OS and Lineage will keep working. The problem is if app developers and/or most of their users don’t use a custom ROM, it will likely push them out of Android app development. So while it is possible for some users to avoid direct impacts of this change, the overall fallout will be unavoidable.

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