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What changed though? Before iOS and iPhones existed, you also couldn’t sideload on iOS, but no one was complaining. Apple created a new product essentially from
by baddox 6y ago
What changed though? Before iOS and iPhones existed, you also couldn’t sideload on iOS, but no one was complaining. Apple created a new product essentially from scratch, and it has some limitations to how software can be distributed to it. Your car infotainment center and your fancy air purifier probably also don’t provide an easy way to install arbitrary software on them. But creating a new device that can’t do every conceivable task doesn’t change how you can sell other software online.
- kalleboo 6y agoMobile is now the main computing platform for many people around the world[0]. It’s no longer a toy for yuppies or a console device. It’s time the platform grew up from being as limited as a car infotainment system. [0] Today roughly one-in-five American adults are “smartphone-only” internet users https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ Nearly three quarters of the world will use just their smartphones to access the internet by 2025 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/smartphones-72percent-of-people-will-use-only-mobile-for-internet-by-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/smartphones-72percent-of-peo...