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This device has banned sideloading. Wouldn't go anywhere near it.
~~sideloading~~ installing applications from any source in a device you own.
Yes, thank you for using 10 words to describe what I did in 1.
He explained in ten words what you fucked up in 1.
I think he meant "installing" but kept going.
Doesn't make much sense, does it?
Sure doesn't.
Dam i just realized that, and now reading no unlockable bootloader either.
TL;DR: a stock Android option is available where you still can sideload
that’s only if you choose the “anti-distraction” OS where nearly no apps are available. stock android is also an option (on which sideloading is still very much possible but harder with a waiting period after the restrictions you’ve probably heard of).
i think this feature of the anti-distraction OS is probably a misstep if it can’t be overridden, but you do not have to use the anti-distraction OS at all.
Edit: Added TL;DR
It just says "Android OS", which can mean a lot of different things. No one would actually want "stock Android". But whatever it is is probably better than their own OS.
What do you mean "no one would want stock android"?
That's the whole selling point of the Pixel serie phones. No 3rd party bloat or unwanted features, quick updates, etc.
The Pixel series is not "stock Android".
They're much closer than e.g. Samsung OneUI, though.
Android OS is just another word for Google and Oddessy Os is for someone who wants minimalistic features. I’ve seen a lot of phones pushing that lately but then they don’t have features or capabilities that they should have.
Google is not an OS.
They do have they own OS called Chrome OS (for computers) but for these phones, especially now sideloading is going to be difficult or not happen at all, you can basically call stock android, Google, cause that is all Google is gonna want you to use.
Yes and they have another one called Android. Google is a search engine. And a company. Again, not an OS.
And Fuchsia! RIP Fuchsia.
What happened to it
It was originally conceived to replace Android, but then it got relegated to Google Home devices, and now it's basically just a REST client for Gemini that's bleeding users because Gemini on smart home stuff sucks even more than Gemini normally.
I thought it was a desktop OS?
WIRED says it's stock Android.
"Stock Android" is pretty well-defined. what do you think it means?
Not what you think it does