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

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522 points josephcsible | 3 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.47s | 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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1. constantcrying ◴[13 Oct 25 19:48 UTC] No.45572569[source]▶
Over the last years Android has gotten increasingly worse, which is something you just have to expect from a Google product.

It is still unbelievable to me that Google is shipping a product which takes 10 seconds to show anything when I search through my phones settings. What are they doing?

>open source

Sure. If you buy the right phone you get some open source components. Of course half the Android companies are trying to funnel you into their proprietary ecosystem as well. The rest just wants you to use Google's proprietary ecosystem.

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2. surajrmal ◴[13 Oct 25 20:14 UTC] No.45572864[source]▶
Everything in settings loads near instantly for me including search. What exactly has gotten worse with Android recently?
3. xp84 ◴[13 Oct 25 21:11 UTC] No.45573377[source]▶
> takes 10 seconds to show anything when I search through my phones settings

Ah, I see ol' Google's been shamelessly copying Apple again.

Unrelated but related to embarrassingly-bad search: On my iPhone, I have a Hacker News reader app called Octal. Now when I search the phone itself for "octal" (like I do to launch most apps), sometimes the only result found is... the Octal entry under Settings (where iOS sticks the permission-granting interface for notifications, location, etc.) Can't find the app itself. Just the settings for it.