NemeskiApp Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
OrangeCorvusReading the comments from that article is a prime example of how a cult functions.
In reality this will have a 0,002% impact. Most phone users are tech-illiterate and have no idea how to use their devices. You expect these people to go to a different store? On Android you can have other app stores, why don’t you have? Because Play Store is default and all app developers want to be where most users are, not on a 3-4% user share store.
It will most likely be background noise in the first months and everyone will go back to the App Store. The only people that will use an alternate store will most likely be the same ones that use F-droid, so 0,002% of the users.
But hey, it’s better to scream how this whole thing is making their devices less secure, because Apple told them so.
btaf45On Android you can have other app stores, why don’t you have?
I do I have a Samsung store. Beyond that, the ability to sideload apps is a huge reason I use Android and IOS sucks. I also have apps I’ve loaded off of web sites and my own LAN.
icedterminalSome apps can’t be posted on store fronts for one or more reasons.
- Private Internet Access: Due to Play store policy, this version lacks the Mace feature. You have to download the full featured app from PIA’s website. …privateinternetaccess.com/…/android-installing-t…
- PornHub: Obvious. But the app is genuinely a better experience than the website.
iOS is also filled with apps that have ads and subscriptions. Having something like F-droid for Foss apps without the nonsense is nice if you need something like a simple pdf reader or even a calculator. IPad has no calculator for example and there's so much crap you have to shift through to find a simple calculator that doesn't have ads or subscriptions.
The iPad doesn’t have a calculator???
Indeed. And you can’t even install the first party Apple one from the store, you have to go third party.
EggyheadIt does, just not as an app. It’s built into spotlight. There’s a built in PDF reader as well, if you just tap to open a pdf file from the files app.
Yich, that reminds me of the ever-expanding role of the start menu in windows.
RetiringWhy is pornhub obvious? Americans are so prude, it hurts my brain. God forbid there are nipples somewhere! But murder is fine.
School Shootings on the news during the day, where every kid can see it. No wonder there are that many gun nuts, they have to be terrified.
Google Play policy forbids PornHub from being allowed. But yet we have web browsers… Idgi
Don’t forget the apps that get banned because they dare to undermine the store owner’s profit by presenting free alternatives to their awful paid versions.
Like NewPipe and the Youtube app that can’t even play video’s with the screen off.
vikingThe pornhub app has been discontinued over half a year ago, and they closed the API. So even if you have the old one installed, it doesn’t work but will instead forward you to the mobile website.