We hereby grant you a conditional right to install software on the device you "own", subject to conditions, and terms, but only under certain circumstances and only so long as it pleases us.

Modern handheld computing is such a shitshow...

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p0w3n3d 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, to me android is another Linux machine. I can change the date and for the device it's tomorrow. At least should be. What then? Will it accept the apk I just installed because it's tomorrow? Or reject because of no lease token from the one-almighty-Google? Or maybe it won't work at all when offline even with offline apk?

	▲	plausibility an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If I was a hostile phone OS designer, I would make it use the time reference given by nearby cell networks, GPS, or an RTC in the motherboard rather than the local clock. That’s closer to ‘true’ time if you want to make sure a day has actually passed.
	▲	fsflover 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So Google proved that Android is not Linux. Time to switch to actual (GNU/)Linux phones? Sent from my Librem 5.

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28304283409234 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"hand held computing" indeed.

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IshKebab an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Come on, this is a totally reasonable approach that should help a bit with high pressure scan tactics but doesn't really hurt side-loading.

As long as they keep it like this. The existence of the "only allow side-loading for 7 days" option is definitely worrying.