Buy my friends some real computers ig
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Lying.
Nokia still sell phones, better battery life too. Was curious about webOS or what ever it was that a few fairly low spec phones were using although not sure if that died off.
Realistically it would just become a device I have to have because of the stupid expectations of society, but I won't care about or respect it. Get the cheapest second hand one I can find and use until it breaks. Get a call/SMS only SIM, mine is PAYG but currently subbed to a monthly £4 bundle for unlimited minutes and texts.
Lucky patcher will handle it, I suppose
Lucky Patcher still around?
Probably just register as a hobby developer and in worst case scenario sign apps I build from source with my own key and install them on my own devices, in case the original developer is not registered. None of the information I give google is new, they know all of that probably long time ago, and I don't plan to distribute apps, just install them myself.
This seems like a macOS system where you can install apps from outside of Apple Store, but it still needs to be a registered developer. It's not THAT bad, as it may initially look like. Just remember the old Android Marketplace with tons of shady fart and flashlight apps.
But, I bet there will be a root workaround for that so... no worries. Root, disable, hide root, enjoy like nothing happened.
Source for this ban claim?
I know there is a ban on not being able to install unsigned apps, but it won't limit apps to only Google Play apps.
Please, while the whole situation is BS, adding complete misinformation to the mix isn't going to help.
Source: Google themselves.
It never fails to amuse me how confidently wrong some people can be when they don't even read what they link to.
Because, you know, if you did read that link, you'd know how wrong you were.
What's wrong about:
Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers
we're working on a separate type of Android Developer Console account
I don't want to suck Google's dick and create a Google account to send my applications to people who want to sideload them.
You were confidently wrong about me being a regular user. Nice try though.
You literally pointed out that sideloading will still be available, which is what this is about. It's not about if developers need to be registered, that's its own issue with is separate own issue. Blocking sideloading means no more 3rd party stores, which will still be very much allowed even in these ruling.
And when did I say anything about you being any type of user, regular or otherwise? And what does that have to do with anything about this false claim that sideloading will be banned?
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Or are you taking confidently wrong to a whole new level?
Sideloading with a central authority is not sideloading.
Oh, of course. When you get trapped in your confidently wrong BS, you move the goal post.
The whole thread is about supposedly not being able to install beyond the Google Play Store, its literallyin the posts title. Trying to rewrite what "sideloading" is now isn't helping you're argument.