Technology

59589 readers

2972 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

138

Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (19 children)

Any idea how this demand is different from the current state of Android?

Under Epic's terms, any app downloaded from anywhere would operate identically to apps downloaded from Google Play, without Google imposing any unnecessary distribution fees.

Last time I used it, I downloaded all my apps through F-Droid, and I didn’t think they were paying Google anything?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

They probably mean, for example, not having to prompt the user to allow installs from "unknown sources", allowing alternative app stores to update apps and themselves automatically in the background like Google Play does, allow installations from alternative stores with one tap without extra user interaction, etc.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I must have had an extension at the time, but it sounds like F-Droid does automatic updates for anything Android 12+ now?

https://f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html

I guess the nag screen can be scary, though. Good point

[–] huginn@feddit.it 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.

Or even once.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really don’t know how to feel about it

The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience

I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Epic wouldn't be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.

But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (15 replies)