curtisnewton

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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> Probably because they require APIs which cannot be used when publishing to the AppStore That's the funny part. They do stuff they want to prohibit to other developers because "safety". But we all know that Google can do
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> You mean install the app? Correct, I mean install the app. Sideloading is the corporate jargon for "installing an app".
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> without requiring Google's authorization for app publication. funnily enough, I am installing google drive for computers right now (macOS), I had to download a .pkg and basically sideload the app, which is not published on the App
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> I'm not in any of those autocratic countries Autocratic Albania banned by law ads on YouTube so if you are in Albania (or your VPN is - wink! wink!) you get to watch YouTube without ads legally I, too, hate those autocratic coun
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> more competent than their 80-year-old nontechnical self can worry about cybersecurity 80-year-old nontechnical self can easily operate machines and devices that are much more complex and easily more dangerous than a smartphone. And yet
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
I guess it's because propaganda and scare tactics work.
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by curtisnewton 11mo ago
> Then i guess you can't publish apps? I want to distribute apps (someone might also want to simply sell them), not publish them I don't need a publisher, internet is a publishing media already > you don't have the righ