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I 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 th
by Tichy 14y ago
I 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...