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Of course, but then they don't get the exposure of the play store. And only people who explicitly allow "other markets" will be able to install from other sourc
by Tichy 14y ago
Of course, but then they don't get the exposure of the play store. And only people who explicitly allow "other markets" will be able to install from other sources. I for one have not yet dared to tick that checkbox on my phone.
Actually I think that option in Android should be more fine grained. There are certain markets I would allow, but I don't want to allow ALL markets. At the moment the choice is only "play only" or "all sources".
I wish it would be more like debian, for example, were I could add to a list of enabled sources.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoIt is not like checking that box allows other markets to just push stuff onto your device. It just gives you the ability to get things from other sources. You still have full control of not getting stuff from sources you are worried about.
- Tichy 14y agoSee my other reply - I still think it significantly lowers the barrier to installing malware.
- lnanek2 14y agoYou still get prompted for every single thing installed...
- Tichy 14y agoI know, but I also know how well that worked on Windows (not at all). What if some apps figure out how to fake that prompt or somehow hide it. Or if I get to the prompt while I am tired or drunk and hit "OK" too fast because I was expecting something else. It is just one barrier less.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoTrue. If you are prone to "drunk installing" then you are best to not enable that feature. They can't engineer around all stupidity.
- iy56 14y agoThey could add a breathalyzer check to the install verification prompt.
- fpgeek 14y agoThe top answer in this Stack Overflow discussion says that the core package installation APIs are locked down fairly tightly (such that third-party applications have to go through the prompting): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6813322/install-uninstall-apks-programmatically-packagemanager-vs-intents http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6813322/install-uninstall...