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Do you think their attempts to make a living would be less stressful if they started releasing only on f-droid?
by fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
Do you think their attempts to make a living would be less stressful if they started releasing only on f-droid?
- sneak 4y agoThey could release on their own website. The Google store is not the only game in town - unlike on iOS.
- nine_k 4y agoWhat you lose then is the auto-update. You can of course make the app nag about installing a new version when available, but it works much, much worse.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoThe app can auto-update itself without nagging.
- eropple 4y agoBy being granted very broad security permissions that an application shouldn't need on a phone, yes.
- counttheforks 4y agoClearly the application does need it, else it wouldn't need the permissions to auto update itself.
- lern_too_spel 4y agohttps://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... doesn't seem overly broad to me. How would you make it more specific?
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- warent 4y agoI've owned an android for years and have never once installed an app outside the google play store. There's no way this is a viable business option