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Android Sideloading: New Rules, Advanced Flow & What Users Need to Know (2026) - World Today Journal
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But is otherwise just installing an app.
Do I "sideload" Steam on windows too if I don't go through the microsoft store?
I mean, at the going rate of online freedom... Give it a month
Yes, other than being different.
No because there's no functional difference.
Please do elaborate on this functional difference the play store has and the microsoft version doesn't. I'm a little lost here.
I can use my F-Droid apps just as well as their play store counterparts.
Check out the OP, lots of good info there about the differences.
I remain as lost as I was.
The only differences I noticed are the ones google is forcing through with their new "advanced flow", but that does not constitute a "functional difference".
LOL you are grasping at straws so hard and I don't know why. Of course it's functionally different. I don't know how you could possibly assemble an argument otherwise.
For something so apparently obvious you sure seem reluctant to put it to text.
Thus far I have given you the benefit of doubt, but you have yet to come with a real argument.
I cannot, nor will I argue against what I have to imagine your opinion to be. Either say what you mean or say nothing at all. Until then your point is moot.
It's already in the text in the OP. If you can't read it or refuse to acknowledge it, me rewriting it is not going to help you.
Clearly we are reading different articles in that case, or I must've really missed the bit you're so staunchly referring to.
Or maybe you can, I dunno, quote whatever bit of text you're so staunchly referring to?
citation?
A single example is fine, i can't find any, but perhaps i'm missing something important.
The citation is in the OP and also the comment you just replied to. Literally the entire OP article is about the differences. You can't possibly read it and not see them.