But isn't this what the whole Epic thing is trying to do though? Normalize the behavior of installing applications outside of the Walled Garden? Either you can or you can't. If you can, easily enough for the general population that wants to play Fortnite, it will become normalized. Much like clicking "Yes" on the UAC for every single screensaver you download from the internet. Or pretty much every damn game you want to play these days because they want to execute a DirectX runtime installer to make sure tha
Really? The all-powerful moderators of Slashdot think that was insightful? Or they just "admire" the traditional Slashdot negativity? I think it just goes to show FPs should be more carefully selected, though I wouldn't call it an actual abuse of FP. About the actual story, there are two interesting questions, but the linked story addresses neither of them to my satisfaction.
The first question involves the target. I see two basic options: broad or narrow. If it was broadly targeted, then there should have b
Ok it pops up as a notification saying it is a critical update. Nobody goes anywhere to sideload anything. It looks the same as official updates, more or less.
I have never installed such a thing and see this. The first two times I tried updating but it did nothing, and now I just ignore it. I think my phone is too old for it.
What a non-story. Software which wasn't available from the play store and had to be installed manually by the user is causing security problems.
But isn't this what the whole Epic thing is trying to do though? Normalize the behavior of installing applications outside of the Walled Garden? Either you can or you can't. If you can, easily enough for the general population that wants to play Fortnite, it will become normalized. Much like clicking "Yes" on the UAC for every single screensaver you download from the internet. Or pretty much every damn game you want to play these days because they want to execute a DirectX runtime installer to make sure tha
Really? The all-powerful moderators of Slashdot think that was insightful? Or they just "admire" the traditional Slashdot negativity? I think it just goes to show FPs should be more carefully selected, though I wouldn't call it an actual abuse of FP. About the actual story, there are two interesting questions, but the linked story addresses neither of them to my satisfaction.
The first question involves the target. I see two basic options: broad or narrow. If it was broadly targeted, then there should have b
Ok it pops up as a notification saying it is a critical update. Nobody goes anywhere to sideload anything. It looks the same as official updates, more or less.
I have never installed such a thing and see this. The first two times I tried updating but it did nothing, and now I just ignore it. I think my phone is too old for it.