![]() ![]() ![]() Im currently an android user because I thought it wouldn't, but in practice it does. > Would giving people the ability to opt out of Apple's ultra-managed experience and take more control over their device harm your ability to continue to enjoy those benefits? OnePlus reportedly informed Epic that Google was “concerned that the Epic Games app would have the ability to potentially install and update multiple games with a silent install bypassing the Google Play Store.” Google demanded OnePlus not implement the agreement outside of India, where the company allowed OnePlus to move forward with the deal. As part of the agreement, Epic says it developed a version of Fortnite specifically for OnePlus devices to take advantage of the OnePlus phones’ high-refresh-rate screens. >Epic reached an agreement with OnePlus to preload Epic Games on the company’s smartphones. >Google has struck at least 24 deals with big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store, including an agreement to pay Activision Blizzard Inc about $360 million over three years >The lawsuit is effectively claiming that this openness is a facade, because while customers technically have the choice of where to get their apps from, Google’s business practices have prevented a viable app store competitor from emerging. They talk a good game about allowing it, but their conduct is a different story. We know from discovery in the various Google antitrust cases that Google has a pattern of behavior where they place barriers against others who attempted to offer their own app store. “Because of this, we’ve launched Fortnite for Android on the Google Play Store.” >“Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store,” an Epic Games spokesperson said in a statement. Google proceeded to try to scare users away from sideloading Epic's app, and Epic sued. At the time, the move was understandable for Epic, which was sitting on the hottest free-to-play game of the year that was pulling in substantial revenues from in-app purchases. >When Fortnite launched on mobile in 2018, Epic Games very notably sidestepped the Google Play Store and pushed users to download the title directly from their website, an effort made to avoid the substantial revenue cuts that Google takes from in-app purchases of Play Store downloads. I can just get things done in my iPhone and never touch settings app ever, except the occasional "is my battery doing good" checks. ![]() ![]() While iPhone's (or Apple's) ecosystem lacks control, it promises dependability, and this is huge in removing obstacles from your productivity. My parents use Samsung A9s, and I help them configure theirs from time to time, and seems like every important setting is either buried six levels deep or is not guaranteed to stick after an arbitrary time. I'm using Linux for 20 years, and I'm not going to change that, however Android is not Linux and settings persistence on Android is just not present. I manage more than enough servers at work, and I don't want to manage another server in my pocket, do nitty-gritty settings, allow selected apps background access, try to find what changed and what broke every update. It just manages itself, and all that hard problems (backups, updates, ease of use, experience homogenity, etc.) are solved. On the other hand, I'm pretty happy with the default state of an iPhone. I understand where you are coming from, and support you on that. ![]()
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