Google tries to justify Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
Google tries to justify Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
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Google tries to justify Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
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Google tries to justify Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
Google tries to justify Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions
Imagine Microsoft forcing all application developers to send them their ID for approval before users are allowed to install their application on Windows.
Sounds absurd, right?
But Google doing the exact same thing on Android? I wonder how this is not downright illegal. Why is there even a discussion about this?
The correct term is āinstallingā btw. Not āsideloadingā. āSideloadingā is corporate speech for framing the installation of applications outside their walled garden as something shady/illegal/questionable.
You wouldnāt call it āsideloadingā when installing an application on your desktop or laptop computer, why call it āsideloadingā when installing an application on your pocket computer?
Notice how MS has been aggressively been pushing their app store and xbox live, more with each update to the OS.
Now consider that Win12 will probably come out in a year or so.
It's gonna be the same shit as what Google is doing.
Actually, I'd argue that google isn't banning sideloading apps, but it is banning installing them.
IIRC they will still let you do
adb installfrom a PC (which I would say can be reasonably called sideloading, since you're pushing the app in from an external device), but banning installing unsigned apks from the device itself (which I agree is silly to call sideloading).