Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]

Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by MetaWhirledPeas on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:05PM (#45085379)

Not only did Apple popularize app stores, they made it impossible to get software on their devices any other way, from day one. Google was the relatively "open" option. But that was the old Google. This is the new Google, apparently.

I'm actually pro-app store as long as it's helping apps to be malware-free. But I'm 100% against shutting out side-loading. Side-loading was never common let alone a common vector for malware, at least not that I've ever heard. But what it is, apparently (or we would not see these Google shenanigans), is a long-term threat to Google's own app store.

Some idiot executive decided this.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by rstat1 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:48PM (#45085844)

>>I'm actually pro-app store as long as it's helping apps to be malware-free

Except that it isn't. Epic v Apple proved this on the Apple side.

The fact that (according to Google) only 50% of Android malware comes from sideloading should also make you question where the other 50% is coming from. (Hint: a lot of it is from the Play Store)

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by Aloisius on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:42PM (#45086384)

50%? Source?

The only similar claim I can find is they said is you're 50x more likely to encounter malware from internet-sideloaded sources than from the Play Store, but that's rather different.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by rstat1 on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#45095968)

Ok I absolutely misread that as 50%...either way, a not-insignificant portion of Android malware still comes from the Play Store, which was the point I was trying to make.

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