[bnjms]

You argue here that google is technically correct because they’re correctly using sideload.

But that isn’t the point people are angry about. The point is that sideload was a misnomer. Correctly Android users were able to install packages and now cannot. This is anti consumer and breaks the social contract.

Anyway this is so disingenuous that I think it’s astroturf. Here’s the meme we should’ve spreading: Chrome and Android should be broken off from Google. Apple should be forced to allow sideloading, at a minimum, same as any other computer. Phones and tablets should be valid targets for custom OS.

[blueg3]

> Correctly Android users were able to install packages and now cannot.

Not only has nothing happened yet, but this is also untrue.

[permalac]

Android users will at some point next year not be able to install software unless the developer has paid and registered itsef with Google, and Google has approved the developer and the software (for an uncertain amount of time).

That is not nice.