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I'd believe that better if Meta didn't also deliberately provide a sideloading mechanism and encourage homebrew. It's a believable end-goal, but it doesn't see
by talldayo 2y ago
I'd believe that better if Meta didn't also deliberately provide a sideloading mechanism and encourage homebrew.
It's a believable end-goal, but it doesn't seem to be the direction they want to go in the immediate future.
- deisteve 2y agoyou are reading too much into Meta. They arent the NSA
- AlexandrB 2y agoTrue, the NSA needs a FISC warrant to conduct mass surveillance.
- 999900000999 2y agoNormal people don't know how to side load. The 5% that actually care are power users, these are the folks who buy every iteration, develop for the device, etc.
- talldayo 2y agoI'm not a power-user though. I use a 3-generation-old Oculus Quest 1 that doesn't get first-party official updates anymore. Am I really supposed to expect Meta to push an update to a depreciated platform to disable a feature?
- 999900000999 2y ago? I agree with you, I actually use Android since I prefer to be able to install what I want.
- Eduard 2y agoit's likely dumber than that: bait and switch. Facebook had done this before: they gave third parties rich access to their data via Graph API, which in turn helped Facebook to grow. Once their social graph growth phase began to slow down, Facebook severely cut off data access.
- talldayo 2y agoI have an Oculus Quest 1. How are they going to update it to stop supporting sideloading when they've stopped supporting it officially altogether?
- gpm 2y agoThey don't have to. If this market pans out for them: 1. Almost every VR device is not yet sold. It doesn't matter what you can do with existing devices because they are a tiny fraction of the market. 2. Devices are going to improve drastically. No one is going to be using a VR device from today except as a retro computing device anyways.
- refulgentis 2y agoWell, that's an interesting way of framing it.
- kridsdale1 2y agoYeah it’s wrong. They locked it down because it was a regulatory and reputational disaster.
- koolala 2y agoI will never believe Meta or Apple excuses for our computers not being computers. Video Game Consoles are about complete control to create a fake digital market and it needs to end.
- scheeseman486 2y agoThey can close that door any time they want, all they have to do is add a paywall for a developer account.
- talldayo 2y agoYou don't need a developer account to sideload on the Quest.
- scheeseman486 2y agoUnless something has changed, you need a Meta account and must enable developer mode, which requires signing up as a developer in order to sideload. e: Checked and confirmed, though they call it Debug Mode now. Still need to sign up as a developer.