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Google Pixel 10 series review

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69 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 09:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ilioscio ◴[31 Aug 25 14:29 UTC] No.45083396[source]▶
Google is really losing the plot lately, like worse than ever before. The changes to sideloading android apps is perhaps the biggest red flag they've ever thrown. But the new UI updates look largely silly and unhelpful, but maybe I'm being unfair.
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dzogchen ◴[02 Sep 25 22:46 UTC] No.45110098[source]▶
If you are calling 'installing an app on your own phone without involvement of the vendor' 'sideloading' then you are complicit.
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1. joshmn ◴[03 Sep 25 01:00 UTC] No.45111117[source]▶
Not OP, but to add to your sentiment: It was called installing when I was a child. I would download software—from CNET just casually browsing, or whatever from a warez forum—and open the package to reveal an installer (I was fond of InstallShield-based installers, I do not know why). I could customize the directory which the application would install to, stare endlessly at the verbose “advanced” or “custom” mode, and listen to my HDD spin a little faster.