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Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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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
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.
I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most