Thread 106483447

Once they kill sideloading, I'm switching to an iPhone. They already murdered custom ROMs and are in the process of making sure AOSP is unusable. This is the last straw. Android will just be iOS with ads

>>106483447 (OP)
they aren't killing sideloading, you liar.

>>106483488
Not OP but they are for non-custom ROMs. So the solution once more is to use LOS or GOS

>>106483488
Yeah they just took it behind the shed, it's definetly still alive bro.

>>106483488
>you can only run apps by developers specifically approved by Google
the only reason they're not outright telling you you can only run Play Store apps is antitrust challenges

>>106483447 (OP)
>>106483488
>sideloading
note how obediently goyim adopted their newspeak
it is no longer "installing programs" for them, it's "sideloading apps"

>>106483447 (OP)
>laughing in SailfishOS
ohnonono google play sistas, it's over

>>106483525
>installing
newslop goyspeak, back in my day we LOADED programs

>>106483447 (OP)
come home white man

Low quality bait thread, don't even reply.

>>106483525
If the new speak is "side loading" then what exactly is "back loading" and "front loading"?

I assume these exist right because why call it side loading in the first place? And which side am a loading it from?

>>106483718
this

>>106483525
Words don't change reality, you postmodern leftycuck. It doesn't matter if you call the process "sideloading" or "installing programs". The outcome is the same.

>>106483740
side loading is like having side bitches to your main apps installed through the play store

>>106483525
true true...

>>106483543
We still LOAD programs, it now happens automatically behind the scenes when you run a program. INSTALLING, thoughever, is a process of unpacking program's resources, copying the files, configuring the program etc so that it can be run on the system.
>>106483740
>why call it side loading in the first place?
Because they consider it important to point out that what you're doing is wrong - you're installing a program through "side channels", not using "official channels".
>>106483819
>Words don't change reality
>It doesn't matter
>The outcome is the same
Peak reddit nihilism. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't rename "installing programs" into "sideloading".

>>106484029
bs it's all about closed garden, the same app from huawei store will have huawei ads plugged in, oh no muh security, go back to googol play store to get the secure ads, it's for your own good goy

>>106483740
>back loading

>>106483525
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

>>106483568
>>106483447 (OP)
get a toilet currynigger

>>106484710
Isn't the entire lesson of 1984, that authority always wins in the end? The three superpowers are all totalitarian and the supposed force of resistance (Goldstein) is just a controlled opposition honeypot. The main character got psychologically crushed and then killed by the system in the end.

Yesterday we could install programs, today we can sideload apps, tomorrow we will have no apps at all.

>>106483819
Side loading is a cuck term
Do you also side loads programs on your computer? No, you just install programs
Using sideload is bending the knees to their jewish speak

>>106485328
>you can still sideload apps saar, just only ones we give certificates to saar
>think of it like an ID check at the airport saar

>>106483525
>he crimeloads dark apps onto his drug dealer phone

>>106485328
>You can install anything you want, as long as we approve.
Greatest ally.

>>106483740
>back loading
my gf with her huge ass
>front loading
me (massive cock and balls)

>>106483447 (OP)
Get a GDP pocket mini laptop with a 4g lte module and continue running whatever OS you want instead.

>>106483488
>ruined YouTube (again)
>killed off their Xbox live competitor
>deleted the "don't be evil" slogan because Alphabet told them too because they wanted to guilt free develop sandnigger baby killing AI
>abandoned the cool modular tiles concept for their original Pixel phones
>is actively making what was once a PEAK search engine add ridden and AI slop ridden cancer
>"B-b-b-but surely they won't cross 'insert red line here' and ruin that to right fellow /g/oys?"
The answer is yes anon, they're gonna ruin it.

>>106485479
I'd say don't give them ideas, but it's freaking google, they're probably already considering that spin on it. Just have some bots on standby to repeat "drug dealer phone" over and over.

>>106483447 (OP)
>wangblows 11 utter shit
>wangdroid 16 utter shit
Fucking Apple looking more appealing every day, fuck me I want back to 2005...

>>106485783
>Get a GDP pocket mini laptop with a 4g lte module and continue running whatever OS you want instead.
Can you even send texts and make calls on this?

>>106483447 (OP)
Just don't update past Android 15, it'll still get plenty of support for years and you can install APKs to your hearts content

>>106486480
Depends on the modem, most of the same stuff that lets Linux phones text and call should work fine

>>106486496
lol you think that makes a difference?
they’re going to be updating phones via Play Services

>>106483447 (OP)
iOS already has ads.

are you not unable to "sideload" on iOS? I got Tachimanga on my phone there is always an ad when I start the app but other than that it seems fine.

>>106486573
edit: I must've sideloaded Tachimanga in the past, but now its in the App Store.

>>106486512
>using google play services

>>106483447 (OP)
So you really care about sideloading that's why you're switching to the platform that is most hostile to sideloading.
kys shill

>>106483488
they will probably apply restrictions on the new normal stock normie phones. I don't think they will be updating a galaxy j2 with a softlock

>>106485328
>Sameer Samat

>>106483447 (OP)
Does this only apply to new phones, or all phones retroactively?

>>106483447 (OP)
hope you enjoy your phone slowing to a crawl 6 months after purchase

>>106483488
Won't affect my Chinese rom phone that had no play store or Google out of the box on the first place

>>106483447 (OP)
You haven't tried ios, it's still way worse. Things you take for granted on android and any OS just exist on ios. I agree though that the new restriction is fucking retarded. It's my device, fuck off.

>>106488425
>just don't exist on ios

>>106485783
I fucking hate their rotating hinge gimmick
The original GPD Pocket looked very interesting
Can't be assed to buy these newer models with extra points of failure

>>106486573
it requires a developer account
but idk, tasker's the only thing I thought was worth rooting android for, and iOS comes with its tasker-like feature that can do way more stuff than unrooted tasker

>>106483447 (OP)
>kill sideloading
Good. I've been looking for a reason to go back to a flip phone and this sounds like it could be it.

>>106488378
any android 6+ running google play services, as that component self-updates

Next you autists will be complaining that you can't "install programs" on your Nintendo Switch.
It's a phone. An appliance. It's not a computer. It has a CPU but so does your microwave. You can hack your microwave to run Doom but it would be pretty weird to get mad at the microwave company for not letting you do that without hacking.

>>106489142
this is a wad of braindead horseshit. smartphones have never been "not a computer". it is literally the purpose of their existence, it is what distinguishes them from dumbphones.

>>106486515
only in third party apps

>>106483447 (OP)
you can thank apple for the locked down nightmare that is the smart phone market. before the iphone people were trying to have actual pocket PCs and apple and google killed that dream by inviting the stupid masses for a quick buck.

A question for the EU LGBBQB&QTRANSISTOR community; when you "sideload" on an iPhone, does Apple require the software to be signed?

>>106489181
And in the OS itself.

>>106489921
no

>>106483499
They aren't. You can still "sideload" anything. You'll just have to temporarily disable play protect and maybe gms.

>>106483506
>>106486681
>>106483447 (OP)
see above

more like they're slowly making sideloading harder especially for retards who don't know how to just sideload through adb

>>106483447 (OP)
>Once they kill sideloading, by implementing something no one knows how would work yet, i'm switching to the system, notorious for being (pay)walled garden, where cattle would eat everything thrown down and praise how premium it feels.
Ok, drama queen, ios sounds right for you.
I like how some people suddenly disregard ads, bad updates, shitty hardware practices and other inconveniences ios have.
Would be extremely funny if all this bitching culminates to one little toggle in developer settings.

>>106490170
They only check during the installation? Retarded

>>106490613
That's how play protect works currently:
>You try to install an app from outside of play store -> it'll get scanned
>If it's known malware (or in this case, if it's not signed by a registered dev) the install is blocked
Cool, but you can still disable Play Protect or even outright uninstall it using adb. Now:
>You try to install an app from outside of play store -> it won't get scanned, since nothing is set up to do so
>Your app is installed
Now, if you enable Play Protect again it will not auto-remove the app. It will still scan it and warn you it's dangerous.

They pretty much confirmed that this whole "anti-sideloading" measures are going to use Play Protect and GMS. Both of these can be disabled/uninstalled. Worst case scenario is you're losing these permanently in favor of unverified software.
It's literally the same shit Windows had since Vista. Windows executables that are not signed with trusted certificates (which have to be registered by developers/publishers) raise a UAC warning or are outright deleted by Defender.

Them killing custom roms is so fucking frustrating. I've now got to suffer from the retards who build roms and do everything fucking wrong rather than the community who actually listen to what people are saying and get rid of all the bullshit.
Now, I can't use google pay if I install a custom rom and then all the custom rom shit requires a bunch of workaround bullshit because of the fucking Slot A and B bullshit.
I want to kick whoever built Google Play Integrity checks right in their neovagina

>>106489593
Kek

>>106490742
>Now, I can't use google pay
Based. You should never, ever do banking on your main phone. Just carry your debit card with you.

>>106490850
I should have the option to do it, not to have to deal with their faggy restrictions.
Android used to be great, but now google is turning this fucking shit into ios.

>>106490868
>I should have the option to do it
It's a Google service. You're actively avoiding their requirements to run the service on your device. You're not entitled to shit.

>>106490903
Their requirements are bullshit that's apparently "for my security". I know what I'm doing, why do you have to babysit me, mind your own fucking business google, you cunts.

>>106489067
basically exactly the same situation here.

>>106489110
>he really believes that
Lol

>>106483447 (OP)
Whatever the orifice people might use to load things at, keep making stuffs shit and I will be rocking some brick phone few years forth. Fk you cock sucking CEO's

>>106485783
>>106486510
Can you provide a specific example of hardware and software that allows making actual cellular calls on it?