Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Crazy how Google hasn't been hit for forcing everyone to use Play Store by making it unreasonably inconvenient to use 3rd party stores to update software.
Do 3rd-party stores work on iOS?
F-Droid works quite well on my Google Pixel
In iOS 15 we should see side loading of apps from 3rd party stores. I think this was the result of an EU ruling? Hopefully someone else can confirm.
You mean iOS 17?
Ah! Thanks. Yes I got my upcoming numbers muddled. it's the iPhone 15 and iOS 17. My bad.
Sort of, but you have to either mess with self-signing and reinstalling weekly, or trusting a 3rd party with mobile device management. Not great options.
Ah so not really natively then.
F-droid is (of course) not available in the Play Store, but it's trivial to download and install it from their website after allowing your browser permission to initiate app installs.
It boggles my mind that Microsoft got shit on by the US government for packaging Internet Explorer with their OS, but Google hasn't been reprimanded in any meaningful way for being SO much more anti-competitive with their Play Store by not even allowing you to download other stores through it.
It hasn't been hit directly but the EU Digital Markets Act will make that behaviour illegal, among other things.
You can just install a third party store and update apps through that easily..
Yeah, manually downloading and clicking install/update on each app, waiting 5-10 seconds between apps. So much easier than just pressing "update all" or using automatic updates. Totally comparable.
Personally, I just sideload a couple of apps and they tend to not have issues. It's kinda nice