What if we locked up Google’s store behind some obscure tech menu and make them wait a day? Then everyone would just use the built-in option, right? … In what other industry would you say this is reasonable? How about waiting a day to buy groceries, or water, or gas for your car? … Doesn’t make sense, does it.
And why believe Google at all? A day now, but why not a week later. There’s nothing stopping them from altering the deal. You, my friend, are in Lando’s shoes. And you don’t quite realize it yet. Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
I don’t even believe them, but until that update is actually released, the announcement is just the information we have for now.
Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.
Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.
The annoyance for more tech-savvy people is not the point, the issue is that it’s blatant railroading.
If a casual user needs to use, let’s say, a browser, they’re completely oblivious to the difference between them, and you tell them “you can choose between Edge or Firefox, but for Firefox you’ll have to wait 24h” it’s logical that they’ll pick Edge. Then they’ll get used to it and never switch.
It’s hindering the competition, basically market manipulation.
Today I can just give a store like droid store permissions… In future it will require 24h… Or ot install with adb… This is a big step backwards.
That said I’ve concluded the phone is now a device for accessing approved things… For things I own its Linux PC/laptop/mini laptop acting like a table… I guess my supernote reader is an android 8 device but its more limited use cases and they are going back to Linux too…
The phone is work access, bank access, and a browser… I wish this didn’t need to be a semi dedicated device but here we are.
Google said installing apps from unverified developers is still going to be possible, you just have to wait for a 24 hours delay once to unlock the setting: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
What’s with all these posts making it sound like sideloading is going to be removed from android?
Imagine having to wait 24 hours to use something that you ‘own’
What if we locked up Google’s store behind some obscure tech menu and make them wait a day? Then everyone would just use the built-in option, right? … In what other industry would you say this is reasonable? How about waiting a day to buy groceries, or water, or gas for your car? … Doesn’t make sense, does it.
And why believe Google at all? A day now, but why not a week later. There’s nothing stopping them from altering the deal. You, my friend, are in Lando’s shoes. And you don’t quite realize it yet. Tell you what, you’re not allowed to reply for 24 hours. Go think about it.
I don’t even believe them, but until that update is actually released, the announcement is just the information we have for now.
Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.
The annoyance for more tech-savvy people is not the point, the issue is that it’s blatant railroading.
If a casual user needs to use, let’s say, a browser, they’re completely oblivious to the difference between them, and you tell them “you can choose between Edge or Firefox, but for Firefox you’ll have to wait 24h” it’s logical that they’ll pick Edge. Then they’ll get used to it and never switch.
It’s hindering the competition, basically market manipulation.
Today I can just give a store like droid store permissions… In future it will require 24h… Or ot install with adb… This is a big step backwards.
That said I’ve concluded the phone is now a device for accessing approved things… For things I own its Linux PC/laptop/mini laptop acting like a table… I guess my supernote reader is an android 8 device but its more limited use cases and they are going back to Linux too…
The phone is work access, bank access, and a browser… I wish this didn’t need to be a semi dedicated device but here we are.