Google should be barred from “treating Epic differently,” Epic Games says.
  • atocci@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    8 个月前

    They probably mean, for example, not having to prompt the user to allow installs from “unknown sources”, allowing alternative app stores to update apps and themselves automatically in the background like Google Play does, allow installations from alternative stores with one tap without extra user interaction, etc.

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        262·
        8 个月前

        The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.

        Or even once.

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          8 个月前

          I really don’t know how to feel about it

          The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience

          I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though

          • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
            1·
            8 个月前

            I feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.

            But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.

            • SMillerNL@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              8 个月前

              I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most