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[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Google is going to make this harder than Apple to sideload apps

[-] soyaEnjoyer@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

As I understand it, the options will be

Enable developer mode, wait 24 hours, enable installing unverified apps directly on the phone. My banking app refuses to launch in developer mode and I expect other banking apps to behave similarly
Sideload over usb. This seems like the lowest friction approach but it's quite inconvenient and unclear if app updates will also need to be installed over usb

So not as bad as apple, but still very bad imo

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