This entire article is naively assuming Google is operating in good faith. Android already has this popup. If they want to change it to say “this could potentially be dangerous”, I have no qualms with that.
But that’s not what they want. They want to kill sideloading. It couldn’t be more clear. And if they can’t kill it, they want a piece of the action. They want to be more like Apple.
Absolutely this. This is a solution looking for a problem. There are plenty of obvious ways to make sideloading hard for the average user, but keeping it available to power users. This is not Google’s goal. Google wants to play gatekeeper for their Android platform.
This entire article is naively assuming Google is operating in good faith. Android already has this popup. If they want to change it to say “this could potentially be dangerous”, I have no qualms with that.
But that’s not what they want. They want to kill sideloading. It couldn’t be more clear. And if they can’t kill it, they want a piece of the action. They want to be more like Apple.
Absolutely this. This is a solution looking for a problem. There are plenty of obvious ways to make sideloading hard for the average user, but keeping it available to power users. This is not Google’s goal. Google wants to play gatekeeper for their Android platform.
Same old sanewashing like anything else in today’s media.