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‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 36 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores "sideloading" and hiding the options behind "SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS" warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won't even bother. It's obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they're gonna keep pushing it

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You had to enable the "installing from other sources" setting long before this change, and there are people who did that. How many of those would now stop doing that just because of the one-time wait?

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Samsung has been doing this for ages

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

    Untrue. You can install whatever you want on Samsung's android variant.

    This change makes it so you can't install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google's Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].

    And, pretending "Samsung has been doing this for ages", it doesn't make it right.

    [Edit for clarity]

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    This change makes it so you can't install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google's Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].

    This change was precipitated by a change that allows you to install an app outside the Play Store without the user seeing a scary warning or going through the existing hoops, as required by the Epic Games v. ruling.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Lot of assumptions here, and you know what they say about that. Samsung absolutely has a wait timer to unlock bootloader, especially from Verizon or T-Mobile.

    Don't put words in my mouth

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    You're right, you are making a lot of assumptions. No one said anything about bootloader. This change doesn't change bootloader. This change is about apk installation. Reading the many available articles regarding this change helps in understanding it.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    My man, I brought up bootloader, I was talking about it, if you didn't get that that's on you. Conversations don't just stick to the one thing you want, typically it's a group effort, but don't worry in the future I'll take it slow just for you

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Don't assume I'm your man lol. It seems you're responding to the wrong thread, as no one mentioned bootloaders before your comment from an hour ago. Maybe you are, in fact, attempting to fabricate a conversation out of thin air. You lonely? If so, I'd be more than happy to have a genuine, respectful conversation with you, but none of this bullshit.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Once again, it doesn't matter if "noone mentioned it" I mentioned it, since it's time delayed lock is relevant, my man you really need to take a chill pill

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