Another article that uses the misnomer “sideloading.” It’s just regular installing of apps, away from google’s garden store.
Most narratives are coined by the news and corporate people, like “review bombing” is. Narrative is important, because how you say something is more important than what is being said, because perception is at a glance is powerful.
I think our only hope soon will be that the change is easy to patch out AND that downstream distributors care to remove it. Though I personally doubt they’ll be touching anything that isn’t related to the UI.
That or better, it brings more interest and support for mobile Linux/BSD. The enshitification can only be slowed at best. The only answer to it is to leave the systems promoting enshitification behind. Just like many people are looking outside their Windows on desktop ATM. This is the way.
Considering how companies like Xiaomi were already making it more difficult to install apps I won’t hold my breath.
I was about to swap to android from iphone after over a decade before this news started coming out
