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Re:Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users by jpxxx on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @02:26PM (#4608894)
If you recall that users can be tricked into doing just about anything, you'll see that there's no difference between 'can' install alternate software and 'will' install alternate software. And that software will inevitably turn malicious.
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Re:Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users by cageface on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:04PM (#4610259)
I really can't agree with this. Most users are not going to dig down into the Android settings panel and manually enable app side loading and that's the only way to install alternate software.

This is exactly how things work on Macs now and Mac users aren't exactly swimming in malware.

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