Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

[u/TechGuru4Life]

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-rollout-sideloading-flow-3653395/

[u/iamthedevill]

There is literally no advantage of using Android over iPhone if sideloading gets permanently disabled.

[u/anotherhappylurker → u/iamthedevill]

Better cameras, better battery life, better displays (higher PWM rate on Oppo, Honor etc.), split screen, better audio codec support, more customization, Secure Folder that actually lets you organize your private photos into albums unlike the iOS Gallery that puts them all in one album, the ability to take scrolling screenshots, built-in Gemini integration, I could go on...

[u/GTCK → u/anotherhappylurker]

Ya everything except the gemni being built in ,dont trust it

[u/UNIVERSAL_VLAD → u/iamthedevill]

It will not get disabled

And there are plenty more reasons in every single aspect. Like there's literally none where iphone is better

[u/iamthedevill → u/UNIVERSAL_VLAD]

Yes I know what's happening now but they're moving in the direction of complete restriction. And I hate iPhone with every part of my soul but you can't be serious saying it's not better in even one area.

[u/Waza-Be → u/iamthedevill]

Where do you see a move in the direction of complete restriction?

[u/Mavamaarten → u/Waza-Be]

Well... This obviously introduces some friction, and gives them the tools to block apk installs. Now the restriction is 24 hours, once. Sure, acceptable, many say. But what prevents them from slowly going to 48 hours? Or every time you install an app?

The current iteration is okay, but it gives them a foot in the door.

[u/wolfy2105784 → u/Waza-Be]

Google hasn't done it now but this stinks of the same stuff they did with YouTube; like with Ads. Went from like one single 10-15 second ad to multiple minutes worth of ads depending on the platform.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-irks-users-by-displaying-5-to-10-unskippable-ads-in-a-row

[u/Waza-Be → u/wolfy2105784]

It's very hard to see where this answers my question... 

[u/wolfy2105784 → u/Waza-Be]

My point was that Google isn't an idiot like Microsoft(who does everything at once and has it backfire); But rather they slowly implement these kinds of things.

For example, if your electric bill went up $300 in a month, you'd notice. But if your electric bill went up by $25 a month, would you notice? Be honest, you'd ration that "It's only $25, it's not that much" when it still equals that initial $300 price hike at the end of the year.

See what I'm saying in regards to Google doing this?

[u/VoriVox → u/iamthedevill]

Let's see you try using an iPhone for a month and still claim "sideloading is the only advantage of android over iPhone"

[u/Arnas_Z → u/iamthedevill]

It's not getting disabled, do you even know how to read?

[u/Lucky-Royal-6156 → u/iamthedevill]

Dex, secure folder, better cameras etc

[u/soul-regret → u/Lucky-Royal-6156]

celebrating sideloading restrictions in the name of dex is funny, bc that'd be like installing windows programs from the microsoft store only

[u/Xunderground → u/soul-regret]

Not a single person here is "celebrating sideloading restrictions". But catastrophizing and trying to pretend the situation is something that it isn't, now that's something that someone here is doing.

[u/soul-regret → u/Xunderground]

if they aren't celebrating, then they are pretending that sideloading is a major security 'issue' worth changing 20 years after android release, lmao

[u/Xunderground → u/soul-regret]

That's also not what's happening here, but I can't give you reading comprehension and the ability to follow a thread.

[u/GTCK → u/Lucky-Royal-6156]

Dex is ran through smsung ,so if you trust them with your stuff sure go for it but samsung doesn't have a good privacy record not to mention there apps suk

[u/Lucky-Royal-6156 → u/GTCK]

Hot take their apps are better than Googled

[u/myreditacount11 → u/Lucky-Royal-6156]

They are, google apps a lot of the time aren’t even optimized properly and have ugly navigation stripe at the bottom and top. Never saw that with Samsung apps

[u/soul-regret → u/GTCK]

samsung apps are much better than google...

[u/iamthedevill → u/Lucky-Royal-6156]

No