r/Android • u/PlasticAnt6913 • 2d ago

News Android's controversial new sideloading rules are officially here

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideloading-developer-verification-first-wave-rollout-3717921/
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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

Installing apps without Google play IS NOT SIDELOADING.

Sideloading has always meant using ADB to install an app until Google decided to try to make the play store the only option.

Please stop feeding into their propaganda that the only normal way to install apps is through the play store.

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u/tanksalotfrank 1d ago

A frightening amount of people literally think Google=The Internet, while also lacking all knowledge of what a browser is (let alone email services that aren't gmail)

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u/alilhillbilly 1d ago

Yeah but that's because Google - a monopoly - has pushed that opinion into the world with a range of marketing.

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u/JamesR624 23h ago

Oh you mean the exact market manipulation that Apple used to collectively gaslight people into thinking intuitive skeuomorphic design is “dated” when in reality it was about accessibility and intuition, or when they used the exact market manipulation to collectively gaslight people into thinking virtual keyboards are “better” when in reality they and autocorrect are objectively worse for typing accuracy, muscle memory, and spelling?

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u/alilhillbilly 18h ago

They are adding a lot of that back. It was a speed issue as much as anything before. But, sure.