Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just don’t want them to be able to install other app stores, by mistake or otherwise.
How do you get these alternative stores on your phone? I assume through an app you need to install. It's not just going to be there when you buy your phone.
Opt-in works for me. As long as they don’t get something like the browser selection prompt - that is a nightmare. No problems with the Dev Mode menu (knock on wood) but I did have to tell them not to install VPN profiles…
I am the one they call when something doesn’t work anymore. Getting them iPhones & iPads reduced those calls tremendously. I still have nightmares about the browser plugins they used to have installed on their Win XP PC.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 45.3 ms ] threadWhat do you care what store your parents download apps?
Do you think people with android are having their phones or applications broken because you can install applications by random places on the internet?
That just...doesn't happen.
If they did (which I doubt unless they're avid gamers) the only thing available for purchase there is game related.
(the HN title is faithful to the original article)
It rejected this store because of the button design.
Then approved it “temporarily” after Epic brought attention to the triviality of the decision.
Temporary, pending Epic changing the buttons.
This is plain and simple malicious compliance.