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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There are lots of features that used to be common that just didn't make the cut for one reason or another. I still have old phones with a radio tuner and programmable IR remote. Some features just took up too much space, some complicated the manufacturing process.

Some of them still have enough of a market to justify for some manufacturers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No shit? Well that's assuring a bit. So it's just Samsung that's the c**nt about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Samsung really wants to be Apple. Making it one of the worst Android phones in terms of 'doing your own thing with it'

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 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.