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Re:Home Screen Advantage by pooper on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:10AM (#39508694)
The fact that you can't install apps from your own xcode and run locally (used to be at all now I guess seven day limit) is silly.

On Android, with Android 12, we can now have apps on neostore (fdroid frontend) auto update. There is no good reason to defend apple here. You as a user are always free to not install third party app stores.

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Re:Home Screen Advantage by BHSPitMonkey on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:33AM (#39508847)
The official F-Droid client has auto updates, too, for what it's worth.
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by pooper on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:42AM (#39508901)
This is good to know. Thank you. I'll just install f-droid app on my next phone. iirc it didn't do this when android 12 was new.
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by BHSPitMonkey on Thursday February 29, 2024 @12:10AM (#39546579)
Yep, it was added fairly recently. Exciting times!
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by boxed on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:25AM (#39508791)
> The fact that you can't install apps from your own xcode

...I do right now. So that isn't a fact. It's a myth.

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Re:Home Screen Advantage by pooper on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:41AM (#39508897)
But they die after seven days?
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by boxed on Monday February 26, 2024 @05:07AM (#39509478)
No. It's months at the very least.
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Re:Home Screen Advantage by Pfhortune on Monday February 26, 2024 @05:58PM (#39517845)
Only if you pay the $99/year developer fee.
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