The last one is probably true, though. Most Android users don’t care about sideloading. Those who are being pressured to do so will face the 24 hour lock.
On the other hand, I’m an iPhone user who knows Android as well as anyone. So if I were to pick up, say a Pixel 11 Pro or a Galaxy S27 (so, looking at next year’s lineup), the first thing I’m gonna do is hit that developer option to enable sideloading. I know where it is. I know how to unlock it. And I know the risks. In the meantime I’m gonna set up Nova Prime, I’m gonna put Poweramp on it, I’m gonna be setting up KLCK and KLWP (and maybe KWGT) and all the other apps. By the time I need to sideload anything, I’ll have the important stuff out of the way and shouldn’t have to wait that long.
it is still the same company. if you think they respect your privacy just because you paid them, that is on you. but bragging about it publicly in a comment where you try to sound like super experienced user seems funny.
The Google page I read was the opposite of that. The first time you unlock sideloading, they’ll warn you and make you wait for a day. From then on it’s unlocked.
While I hate Google with a passion, and don’t trust them at all, this seems like a reasonable way to handle the issue of non tech people being coerced into sideloading unsavory apps by scammers.
The last one is probably true, though. Most Android users don’t care about sideloading. Those who are being pressured to do so will face the 24 hour lock.
On the other hand, I’m an iPhone user who knows Android as well as anyone. So if I were to pick up, say a Pixel 11 Pro or a Galaxy S27 (so, looking at next year’s lineup), the first thing I’m gonna do is hit that developer option to enable sideloading. I know where it is. I know how to unlock it. And I know the risks. In the meantime I’m gonna set up Nova Prime, I’m gonna put Poweramp on it, I’m gonna be setting up KLCK and KLWP (and maybe KWGT) and all the other apps. By the time I need to sideload anything, I’ll have the important stuff out of the way and shouldn’t have to wait that long.
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This means though that now the important stuff HAS to come from the play store or you have a 24-hour penalty every time you get a new phone.
https://www.androidauthority.com/nova-launcher-acquisition-ads-update-3633871/
I said Nova Prime. That’s the paid version.
I know what they’re doing to free users, and it’s a shame. No one ever said anything about the paid version.
it is still the same company. if you think they respect your privacy just because you paid them, that is on you. but bragging about it publicly in a comment where you try to sound like super experienced user seems funny.
The way I understood it is you have to wait 24 hours every time, not just for activating dev options.
Edit: apparently I was mistaken.
The Google page I read was the opposite of that. The first time you unlock sideloading, they’ll warn you and make you wait for a day. From then on it’s unlocked.
While I hate Google with a passion, and don’t trust them at all, this seems like a reasonable way to handle the issue of non tech people being coerced into sideloading unsavory apps by scammers.
It just sounds like they came up with an excuse to try and be non-compliant with the European Union’s ruling that they’re an illegal Monopoly
Okay, if that’s indeed the case, it’s at
bestworst patronising, yes.(This leaves of course the other, bigger issues of added hurdles to developers)
Edit: Worst is the word.