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In my country >90% of smartphone users have Android. Yes I would call that a monopoly. Yes I think monopolies should be regulated. Not at the city level since t
by bzb3 6y ago
In my country >90% of smartphone users have Android. Yes I would call that a monopoly. Yes I think monopolies should be regulated. Not at the city level since that's ridiculous and sounds like a strawman. That comment was just an example of monopolies that need to be regulated.
- scarface74 6y agoIsn’t the whole beauty of Android that it is “open” and that you can sideload apps and you are not beholden to a “walled garden”?
- falcolas 6y agoAs Epic found out, not if you want to remain on Google's good side. They were facing sanctions from Google due to their sideloading of Fortnight onto Android phones and tablets.
- scarface74 6y agoWhat “sanctions” were they facing? They were called out because their app was a security nightmare. https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnites-battle-royale-with-android-security-problems-is-just-getting-started/ https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnites-battle-royale-with-andro...
- efreak 6y agoMy understanding is that the "vulnerability" here also exists on every computer or other device on which you download an installer to a public folder--any application can watch that folder and silently replace the file with another when the download completes. There's nothing special about that. Android has a secure internal storage area--but internal storage is often limited. It's gotten better, but my previous phone only had 8gb for both the OS and data to share.