• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Because there are more iPhones in America.

      Ignore that Apple also makes it impossible to side load apps.

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        6 days ago

        I’m not criticizing you because that’s the typical term, but we really need to stop calling it side loading. It’s just installing. Calling it that makes it sound like something special and different.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      Doesn’t matter when the CEO sits at the table with the US president. If it’s illegal it won’t be enforced. Or it’ll be made legal. Or it won’t be made illegal. And if you want to make it illegal in your country - there’s punitive tariffs coming your way from the US president.

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      5 days ago

      The public institutions responsible for tearing apart monopolies would have a field day with google if they were even remotely as powerful and willing as they used to be.

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      6 days ago

      Because there are alternatives. No one is forcing you to use Android.