Epic Games is suing Samsung (and Google) for making it harder to sideload Android apps
Epic Games is suing Samsung (and Google) for making it harder to sideload Android apps
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Epic Games has opened a lawsuit over the difficulty of sideloading apps...
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Apple I can understand, but going after Samsung and Google for essentially putting up a warning before allowing to install an unknown 3rd party app is just unreasonable at this point. They're not even charging users for using it.
This is no different than Windows putting up a UAC prompt for admin privileges before installing their launcher and new game. No one is going to be stopped by that. Is Epic really going to be hurt by a mere prompt, or do they actually just want a white list fast pass in every Android phone? Or maybe their ultimate goal is to become the next Facebook bloatware in every new phone, lol.except there's no warning for apps distributed through google you just hit one button the default state of android as a result is google = safe 😃 anything else = BAD SCARY VIRUS DON'T ⚠️ it never used to give such warnings endlessly and it was fine the average person these days is unfortunately really tech illiterate for some reason and googles intentionally trying to scare them into thinking sideloading is dangerous sure windows does it but windows does it for literally everything windows is constantly giving warnings so no one cares about warnings on windows android basically never gives warnings but then you try and leave google's ecosystem and it starts with the security theatre
Woah, use commas.
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Well tech illiterate people are the last ones I'd trust to properly side load and doing their due diligence of knowing the source of their apk instead of a random one they found on the web.
Personally when I install F-droid on a new phone I make sure to check the signing keys or at the very least the checksum. As unsafe as Google Play can be I trust tech illiterate people even less of safely getting apks.
I trust people to get apks online most people manage just fine getting exes online some people just get scared easily by warnings
If that is enough to turn them away I don't buy them being able to get apks properly.
most people manage just fine getting exes online
Spoken like someone who has never had to support tech illiterate people who install software they find online.