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Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Literally idk why people are saying "If this happens I'll switch to an iPhone"
Like bruh Apple is even a more closed off walled garden? What sort of sense does that make to switch to something twice as expensive and gives you absolutely no control?
Even if Google decided to implement this in the future, I will never switch to an iPhone and neither should you
This feels like Americans voting behavior. "The thing I liked has gone to shit, so as a protest I will take double shit with extra piss"
Trust me iBro, apple's great, just ask their shareholders.
If I'm going to lose the main things I like about Android, like customizing things and installing my own software. Then yeah I would actually jump ship to the alternative because the chips are faster, the battery life is better, and the software would effectively be on par.
The point is that the jump would no longer be from a somewhat open platform to a closed one. It would be a jump from a closed platform to another closed platform.
Lol its like the Americans going "I'll just move to China"...
Me as a someone who was born in mainland China and gained US Citizenship:
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(meanwhile my grandmother just obtained US Citizenship too lmao)
As opposed to what, buying a viable phone from those other guys?
What other guys?
At minimum a stampede of people moving to iPhones should theoretically cause Google to shit enough of a brick (providing capitalism actually works as advertised, and for the record I am trying like hell to keep a straight face as I type this) to correct their behavior in an attempt to win some of those users back.
Because at the end of the day most consumers are consumers, not nerds, and if neither platform is going to allow you control over your device and they're both privacy nightmares you're not much worse off with an iDevice if you plan on owning a smartphone in the first place.
What we really need is a viable third option. Hopefully an inherently non-shitty one. The barrier to market entry seems pretty high, though.