Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores “sideloading” and hiding the options behind “SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS” warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won’t even bother. It’s obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they’re gonna keep pushing it
Untrue. You can install whatever you want on Samsung’s android variant.
This change makes it so you can’t install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google’s Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].
And, pretending “Samsung has been doing this for ages”, it doesn’t make it right.
You had to enable the “installing from other sources” setting long before this change, and there are people who did that. How many of those would now stop doing that just because of the one-time wait?
Today I can just give a store like droid store permissions… In future it will require 24h… Or ot install with adb… This is a big step backwards.
That said I’ve concluded the phone is now a device for accessing approved things… For things I own its Linux PC/laptop/mini laptop acting like a table… I guess my supernote reader is an android 8 device but its more limited use cases and they are going back to Linux too…
The phone is work access, bank access, and a browser… I wish this didn’t need to be a semi dedicated device but here we are.
What if we locked up Google’s store behind some obscure tech menu and make them wait a day? Them everyone would just use the built-in option, right? … In what other industry would you say this is reasonable? How about waiting a day to buy groceries, or water, or gas for your car? … Doesn’t make sense, does it.
And why believe Google at all? A day now, but why not a week later. There’s nothing stopping them from altering the deal. You, my friend, are in Lando’s shoes. And you don’t quite realize it yet. Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
I don’t even believe them, but until that update is actually released, the announcement is just the information we have for now.
Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.
Google said installing apps from unverified developers is still going to be possible, you just have to wait for a 24 hours delay once to unlock the setting: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
What’s with all these posts making it sound like sideloading is going to be removed from android?
Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores “sideloading” and hiding the options behind “SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS” warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won’t even bother. It’s obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they’re gonna keep pushing it
Samsung has been doing this for ages
Untrue. You can install whatever you want on Samsung’s android variant.
This change makes it so you can’t install software (such as F-Droid, NewPipe, Google Camera, Samsung Notes, etc.) from APK, unless you install them directly from Google’s Play Store [without going through unnecessary hoops and 24-hour delays].
And, pretending “Samsung has been doing this for ages”, it doesn’t make it right.
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You had to enable the “installing from other sources” setting long before this change, and there are people who did that. How many of those would now stop doing that just because of the one-time wait?
Today I can just give a store like droid store permissions… In future it will require 24h… Or ot install with adb… This is a big step backwards.
That said I’ve concluded the phone is now a device for accessing approved things… For things I own its Linux PC/laptop/mini laptop acting like a table… I guess my supernote reader is an android 8 device but its more limited use cases and they are going back to Linux too…
The phone is work access, bank access, and a browser… I wish this didn’t need to be a semi dedicated device but here we are.
What if we locked up Google’s store behind some obscure tech menu and make them wait a day? Them everyone would just use the built-in option, right? … In what other industry would you say this is reasonable? How about waiting a day to buy groceries, or water, or gas for your car? … Doesn’t make sense, does it.
And why believe Google at all? A day now, but why not a week later. There’s nothing stopping them from altering the deal. You, my friend, are in Lando’s shoes. And you don’t quite realize it yet. Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
I don’t even believe them, but until that update is actually released, the announcement is just the information we have for now.
Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.