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Apple and Google have way too much power to determine what we can and cannot do with "our" devices. If anyone at all, government laws should determine this, no
by DavideNL 8y ago
Apple and Google have way too much power to determine what we can and cannot do with "our" devices.
If anyone at all, government laws should determine this, not 2 or 3 big companies.
An opt-out of this "walled garden" on mobile devices should be possible, like how System Integrity Protection can be disabled in macOS (if you accept the risks involved.)
- saagarjha 8y agoAndroid lets you sideload apps without jumping through very many hoops, if that's what you mean by being able to opt-out of the "walled garden".
- viraptor 8y agoEpic gave them a nice excuse too. We could potentially claim it's not default and hard to do. But now Google can just point at the number of Fortnite players - see? works just fine.
- bpye 8y agoThe situation on Android used to kinda suck with the global "Unknown sources" toggle, but now you can toggle it per app which is better. I do wish that third party app stores could update apps without user intervention though.