In August, Google announced that it will require developer verification to install Android apps, including through sideloading. That’s continuing, but Google is working on a solution for “experienced users.”
Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.
Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.
The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.
Exactly. They’ll back down a little bit to reduce some of the bad publicity, and then later they’ll quietly expand the remit until the same end is reached anyway.
Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.
Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.
The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.
Exactly. They’ll back down a little bit to reduce some of the bad publicity, and then later they’ll quietly expand the remit until the same end is reached anyway.
The frog is boiled slowly.