Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by grishka on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:40AM (#46753615)

In my country, for example, buying phones from carriers as part of your plan just isn't a thing. As in, you couldn't do it even if you wanted to. Same for postpaid plans and contracts.

As a result, quite a lot of people use the "I can't believe they could make and sell an entire phone at this price" Xiaomi and similar phones.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by Klonoar on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:52PM (#46757532)

Name the country if you want this to be a useful data point.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by pjmlp on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:18PM (#46757739)

You could have checked their profile.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by Klonoar on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:13PM (#46761441)

I'm not clicking the username of every commenter I read just to account for details they should've put in the comment.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by pjmlp on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:41AM (#46762536)

Well too bad, otherwise you would have found it quicker than the time it took to write two comments.

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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by Klonoar on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:43PM (#46798797)

Nah, the comments I'm responding to don't really take that much effort. ;P

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