As announced a couple of weeks ago, power users always have an option to enable sideloading of unregistered APK files through an advanced flow that requires an authentication step to confirm they are taking this step of their own volition and a one-off, 24-hour waiting period to deter scammers.
Sure. That’s the reason why they’re introducing a 24-hour delay. Not because they want to make it miserable so people stop side loading.
It’s distinctly different from just installing an app.
What? To ‘sideload’ an app, I do the following:
How is that different from the Google Play workflow?
The process is different the first time you install an app, regardless of from where. And you know this. Its also detailed in the OP. I’m not sure why you’re pretending not to, except to be a contrarian.
But is otherwise just installing an app.
Do I “sideload” Steam on windows too if I don’t go through the microsoft store?
Yes, other than being different.
No because there’s no functional difference.
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Please do elaborate on this functional difference the play store has and the microsoft version doesn’t. I’m a little lost here.
I can use my F-Droid apps just as well as their play store counterparts.
Check out the OP, lots of good info there about the differences.
I remain as lost as I was.
The only differences I noticed are the ones google is forcing through with their new “advanced flow”, but that does not constitute a “functional difference”.
LOL you are grasping at straws so hard and I don’t know why. Of course it’s functionally different. I don’t know how you could possibly assemble an argument otherwise.
For something so apparently obvious you sure seem reluctant to put it to text.
Thus far I have given you the benefit of doubt, but you have yet to come with a real argument.
I cannot, nor will I argue against what I have to imagine your opinion to be. Either say what you mean or say nothing at all. Until then your point is moot.
It’s already in the text in the OP.
I mean, at the going rate of online freedom… Give it a month
How so?
Check out the article in OP.
I checked and it doesn’t answer the question.
Its literally the topic of the entire article, from beginning to end. You can’t possibly have read it and still not understand this.