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▲ fhdkweig 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You will have to be way more specific. Every time I see a post bringing up the topic of sideloading (like this one), it is a complaint that either another product is locked down or Google itself is trying to lock everything down.

▲ bigyabai 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Look at the flippant dismissal in these threads (follow the discussions - don't just scroll past the parent comments). There's a shocking amount of disagreement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421740

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167948

Here's a few of the worst-aged comments, from a glance:

  Absolutely no need to wail and rant about Apple and their App Store practices constantly. Just use Android.

  You don't hear about 14 million iPhones being infected by malware

  But this is the argument with the cookie banners again, isn't it?

	▲	Tanoc an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There's a reason Louis Rossman constantly berates his audience for having the attitude of "You fucking moron, you should've gotten [insert thing here]." He calls it elitism because it's not about commiserating and working to find a solution, it's about putting yourself above someone else for having made the "correct" decision on which multi-billion dollar corporation's fishhooks you decided to drag your skin over.

▲ Retr0id 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People like their iPhones but I'd describe the prevailing sentiment towards app stores as "critical".