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by fabianhjr 1514 days ago
At least in Android it is already the case, I have installed both F-Droid and Huawei's AppGallery in an otherwise stock android. (And prefer to get as much as possible from F-Droid)

Apple on the other hand has a war against "evil" sideloading. :P
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anonymousab 1514 days ago
> At least in Android it is already the case

There are roadblocks and deficiencies though, a major one being that sideloaded app stores cannot automatically update their applications, making them permanently inferior and crippled compared to Google's offering.

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IshKebab 1514 days ago
They're actually fixing that finally (I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with Epic's lawsuits...)
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newaccount74 1514 days ago
Also, some apps from F-Droid are crippled compared to what they can do when downloading from Play Store, eg. the K9 mail app from F-Droid doesn't have support for push email, it can only check at intervals.

I don't know what the reason for this is, but the result is that Android is not a truly "open" platform.

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