Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores “sideloading” and hiding the options behind “SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS” warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won’t even bother. It’s obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they’re gonna keep pushing it
You had to enable the “installing from other sources” setting long before this change, and there are people who did that. How many of those would now stop doing that just because of the one-time wait?
I stopped because the phones now have a 60 second wait time. It’s frustrating when all you want to do is install something you have used forever. Fuck google
Untrue. You can install whatever you want on Samsung’s android variant.
This change makes it so you can’t install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google’s Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].
And, pretending “Samsung has been doing this for ages”, it doesn’t make it right.
This change makes it so you can’t install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google’s Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].
This change was precipitated by a change that allows you to install an app outside the Play Store without the user seeing a scary warning or going through the existing hoops, as required by the Epic Games v. ruling.
Lot of assumptions here, and you know what they say about that. Samsung absolutely has a wait timer to unlock bootloader, especially from Verizon or T-Mobile.
You’re right, you are making a lot of assumptions. No one said anything about bootloader. This change doesn’t change bootloader. This change is about apk installation. Reading the many available articles regarding this change helps in understanding it.
My man, I brought up bootloader, I was talking about it, if you didn’t get that that’s on you. Conversations don’t just stick to the one thing you want, typically it’s a group effort, but don’t worry in the future I’ll take it slow just for you
Don’t assume I’m your man lol. It seems you’re responding to the wrong thread, as no one mentioned bootloaders before your comment from an hour ago. Maybe you are, in fact, attempting to fabricate a conversation out of thin air. You lonely? If so, I’d be more than happy to have a genuine, respectful conversation with you, but none of this bullshit.
Once again, it doesn’t matter if “noone mentioned it” I mentioned it, since it’s time delayed lock is relevant, my man you really need to take a chill pill
Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores “sideloading” and hiding the options behind “SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS” warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won’t even bother. It’s obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they’re gonna keep pushing it
You had to enable the “installing from other sources” setting long before this change, and there are people who did that. How many of those would now stop doing that just because of the one-time wait?
I stopped because the phones now have a 60 second wait time. It’s frustrating when all you want to do is install something you have used forever. Fuck google
Samsung has been doing this for ages
Untrue. You can install whatever you want on Samsung’s android variant.
This change makes it so you can’t install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google’s Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].
And, pretending “Samsung has been doing this for ages”, it doesn’t make it right.
[Edit for clarity]
This change was precipitated by a change that allows you to install an app outside the Play Store without the user seeing a scary warning or going through the existing hoops, as required by the Epic Games v. ruling.
Lot of assumptions here, and you know what they say about that. Samsung absolutely has a wait timer to unlock bootloader, especially from Verizon or T-Mobile.
Don’t put words in my mouth
You’re right, you are making a lot of assumptions. No one said anything about bootloader. This change doesn’t change bootloader. This change is about apk installation. Reading the many available articles regarding this change helps in understanding it.
My man, I brought up bootloader, I was talking about it, if you didn’t get that that’s on you. Conversations don’t just stick to the one thing you want, typically it’s a group effort, but don’t worry in the future I’ll take it slow just for you
Don’t assume I’m your man lol. It seems you’re responding to the wrong thread, as no one mentioned bootloaders before your comment from an hour ago. Maybe you are, in fact, attempting to fabricate a conversation out of thin air. You lonely? If so, I’d be more than happy to have a genuine, respectful conversation with you, but none of this bullshit.
Once again, it doesn’t matter if “noone mentioned it” I mentioned it, since it’s time delayed lock is relevant, my man you really need to take a chill pill
Ok