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

Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by jjani on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:16PM (#45085504)

Having to caveat it with "in the early '00s" already invalidates your thesis; it means we've managed to largely fix this issue on PC without resorting to giving away device ownership.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by bartread on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:24PM (#45086239)

I don’t think it invalidates the argument at all.

I think it’s more a reflection that people mostly use other devices, like phones and tablets, for tasks they might have used a PC for 20 years ago - at least outside an office environment.

That’s not to say the PC experience hasn’t improved - certainly Windows is at least more secure - but that it’s not the only factor, and I don’t think it’s the biggest factor either.

One data point for you: the last company I worked for, when I joined in 2017, already >50% of external users were accessing our service via mobile devices.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by pharrington on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:56PM (#45087005)

The formfactor is the biggest, possibly only, factor. The handheld formfactor works way better for most people than a huge (or even small) stationary brick, or even a laptop.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by kcplate on Sunday August 31, 2025 @09:02PM (#45088475)

You think that companies adopting different technologies to discourage installing software that might be malicious because it hasn’t been reviewed as safe invalidates my argument?

Ok, then.

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