▲ 406 ▼ Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours) (android-developers.googleblog.com) submitted 7 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 125 comments fedilink hide all child comments Lobsters; Hacker News.
[+] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -8 points 7 months ago (3 children) ........so it's android. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 38 points 7 months ago* Is that meant to be a "gotcha" or something? My point is, this is the last time I let google control my phone. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 child) I imagine since it's not an official product of Google's, it can't legally be called "Android." As such it's something that is not Android, but is highly compatible with it since both are rooted in the AOSP. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -11 points 7 months ago Legally? Maybe not. But Col Sanders left KFC after selling a business he created with his own secret reciepe. Then after he sold it, he watched the new owners use his image to sell an inferior chicken product. So he started up another new chicken resteraunt using the original reciepe. Legally he couldn't call it KFC, but that doesn't change the fact that it was the original KFC reciepe. Hows that phrase go? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Call things whatever word you want, it's still the same thing in the end. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 38 points 7 months ago* Is that meant to be a "gotcha" or something? My point is, this is the last time I let google control my phone. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 child) I imagine since it's not an official product of Google's, it can't legally be called "Android." As such it's something that is not Android, but is highly compatible with it since both are rooted in the AOSP. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -11 points 7 months ago Legally? Maybe not. But Col Sanders left KFC after selling a business he created with his own secret reciepe. Then after he sold it, he watched the new owners use his image to sell an inferior chicken product. So he started up another new chicken resteraunt using the original reciepe. Legally he couldn't call it KFC, but that doesn't change the fact that it was the original KFC reciepe. Hows that phrase go? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Call things whatever word you want, it's still the same thing in the end. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -11 points 7 months ago Legally? Maybe not. But Col Sanders left KFC after selling a business he created with his own secret reciepe. Then after he sold it, he watched the new owners use his image to sell an inferior chicken product. So he started up another new chicken resteraunt using the original reciepe. Legally he couldn't call it KFC, but that doesn't change the fact that it was the original KFC reciepe. Hows that phrase go? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Call things whatever word you want, it's still the same thing in the end. permalink fedilink source parent