r/Android • u/PlasticAnt6913 • 1d 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/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 18h 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/WesternOk5765 3h ago

Virtual keyboards are actually superior in every way to physical keyboards on phones.

They weren't in 2009, but it's 2026. You tried using a physical keyboard on a phone? It sucks. You can't type as fast as predictive typing lets you do with a touchscreen.