• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The days of Google encouraging third-party stores and users to sideload apps regardless of origin are long gone. We are fast approaching Play becoming as near a simile to Apple’s App Store as we could ever see.

    I think it’s a stretch to say that Google ever encouraged side loading. But if their plan is to eliminate it all together, that’s a pretty scary thing. I don’t think it’ll go over well in Europe either.

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      4 months ago

      That quote comes out of nowhere. Changing the policies on their store has no effect on side loading software on the os, which still supports it.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I’ll go to iOS again if google takes away sideloading. Android already gave in to lose the expandable storage and headphone jack. What’s left???

      • serv@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Manufacturers gave in, had nothing to do with Android.

        Android still supports expandable storage and headphone jacks just fine. I recently bought a Sony Xperia 5 V and it has both.