Not to editorialize, but I think this is kind of a crazy article. Sharing for the laughs and the discussuon.
Opening a walled community is always good for the end users. Promoting competition is always good for the end users.
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This just feels like fear mongering. Oh no Google says it can’t protect us anymore. Whatever shall we do?
What was Google protecting us from?
Adblockers apparently
In theory malicious android apps. In practice they create locked ecosystems that are hard for anyone to break in. No one wants another apple model.
No one wants another apple model.
Indeed… If I wanted a locked down toy I would have bought an iThing.
Certainly not from malware. The play store is the central repository of Android malware.
Google Play Store isn’t the only app store out there.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Today, Google laid out what’s happening in its Keyword blog, and it’s all in time for the holiday when we can finally slow down and contemplate how much will change about the Android experience due to this ruling.
Noted code sleuth Mishaal Rahman published an easy-to-follow breakdown of how exactly Android’s interface will handle sideloading apps.
You’ll no longer have to dig into the settings panel to toggle on the ability to install apps from other sources, though I also didn’t think it was a big deal to do this in the first place.
If anything, the toggle made me feel like I was engaging in something truly indulgent, and that appealed to my desire to pretend I’m Angelina Jolie’s character in Hackers.
Developers don’t have to hide pricing, either, so they can take up space to tell you how much money you’ll save if you buy in-app coins through their means versus through Google’s.
Though the Play Store has been opened to allow developers to make money in more ways than one, it comes at the expense of what Google presented as pro-consumer practices to keep bad actors from pushing Android users away to Apple’s iOS.
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“If anything, the toggle made me feel like I was engaging in something truly indulgent, and that appealed to my desire to pretend I’m Angelina Jolie’s character in Hackers”
…opening the settings makes them feel like a hacker?
At this point I think people have been babied about technology long enough. It’s time people learned just a little bit about how to handle technology so that it doesn’t look like voodoo black magic anytime you do something more basic than opening YouTube and getting cat videos.
