Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

  • Boinketh@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Crazy how Google hasn’t been hit for forcing everyone to use Play Store by making it unreasonably inconvenient to use 3rd party stores to update software.

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        1 year ago

        In iOS 15 we should see side loading of apps from 3rd party stores. I think this was the result of an EU ruling? Hopefully someone else can confirm.

      • Riven@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Sort of, but you have to either mess with self-signing and reinstalling weekly, or trusting a 3rd party with mobile device management. Not great options.

        • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Ah so not really natively then.

          F-droid is (of course) not available in the Play Store, but it’s trivial to download and install it from their website after allowing your browser permission to initiate app installs.

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            1 year ago

            It boggles my mind that Microsoft got shit on by the US government for packaging Internet Explorer with their OS, but Google hasn’t been reprimanded in any meaningful way for being SO much more anti-competitive with their Play Store by not even allowing you to download other stores through it.

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      1 year ago

      It hasn’t been hit directly but the EU Digital Markets Act will make that behaviour illegal, among other things.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, manually downloading and clicking install/update on each app, waiting 5-10 seconds between apps. So much easier than just pressing “update all” or using automatic updates. Totally comparable.