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by echelon 296 days ago
Both platforms are closed. There is no choice.

Do you know how difficult it is to exercise your freedom to install software on an Android?

Both of these companies know what they're doing. They've co-opted computing and have locked it down and owned it.

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> Do you know how difficult it is to exercise your freedom to install software on an Android?

Download the APK, open it, and tap past the warnings?

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-apks-31494/

Isn't that about the same difficulty as installing an app from a .zip on Windows or a .dmg on macOS?