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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

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522 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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itg ◴[13 Oct 25 16:13 UTC] No.45570037[source]▶
Installing any app I want outside the Play Store was the primary reason I decided to go with Android, despite most of the people I know using iPhones. If I can't do this anymore, I may as well switch and be able to use iMessage and FaceTime with them.
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63stack ◴[13 Oct 25 16:29 UTC] No.45570265[source]▶
Same, I'm tempted to call android just a shittier iPhone now
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Aachen ◴[13 Oct 25 17:37 UTC] No.45571133[source]▶
What part of cheaper, better, and open source is shittier exactly?
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realusername ◴[13 Oct 25 19:05 UTC] No.45572111[source]▶
Cheaper for sure, better maybe but open source certainly not, AOSP doesn't run on a single device on earth, not even the emulators.
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1. floxy ◴[13 Oct 25 19:46 UTC] No.45572558[source]▶
I'm out of the loop on this. What is Graphene doing?

https://grapheneos.org/features

>GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality and usability. It starts from the strong baseline of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and takes great care to avoid increasing attack surface or hurting the strong security model.