The lawsuit vs Google should have finished in the first 5 minutes:
Epic: Google charges very expensive to use their services
Google: we allow to side-load apps, you’re not forced to use our store or our services.
You can even side load app stores.
Yup, I have F-Droid on mine, so it seems very ridiculous that this lawsuit was allowed to continue.
Nah, google goes out of it’s way to throw popups to users that “it’s untrusted” “it’s unsafe” etc. etc… When you sideload things. Going even so far as to hide the continue button under drop downs to skip their shit.
It’s just once when you’re installing the thing, and considering how idiotic most users are the warnings are actually warranted in most cases.
And after updates… and sometimes mysteriously out of nowhere…
I get the stupid notice once a month or so. Especially the “This app isn’t scanned by the play store! Please send us a copy”
I have never seen that. I get one popup saying that installing things from outside the store is not allowed, once you allow the app to do so, e.g. chrome if you’re downloading an APK from it, I only get a confirmation to install and that’s it. It never again bothers me.
Are you using some non-default android, e.g. Samsung phone? If so your problem is with Samsung, not with Google. I have a Motorola and a Pixel, both behave the same.
Are you using some non-default android, e.g. Samsung phone? If so your problem is with Samsung, not with Google. I have a Motorola and a Pixel, both behave the same.
This prompt for PLAY PROTECT, has nothing to do with the manufacturer of your device. As long as google play is installed you will get this notice for apps that it wants to scan, without your permission. But I will say it’s likely I get this prompt more often because of revanced, which gets compiled on my phone directly.
Notice that there’s no “Never send unknown apps”. It’s all dark patterns to stop people from using other sources.
“Allow,” as if it’s supposed to be their call.
It’s your device. Not theirs. That’s what the money was for.
Alternate explanation: they want to side load their store, and that’s way easier on a phone/tablet vs a console. Follow the money, suing Google and Apple is way more likely to be profitable than suing Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.
The ironic part is the one place their store is available (PC), it’s such a pile of steaming crap that I don’t even use it for the free games
But they can already side load their store on Android - they have done so since Fortnite first released for Android in 2017/18.
Fortnite firm says platform holders’ hardware losses justify the need to charge devs for game sales and microtransactions
So, in other words, he’s not suing them because they’re not as profitable?
I feel like this really isn’t going well for Epic.
Maybe the strategy is to get Google to not fight very hard in this lawsuit due to their relative lack of profit from this situation, giving Epic a higher probability of establishing precedent, which they could use in future suits.
