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Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann (youtube.com)

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is an android 16 feature, scheduled for sept 2026 "prerelease" and 2027 rollout. I expect/hope some phones will have a setting to disable "the security". If not, there is great opportunty for high end hardware linux first phones, with good android emulation software.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'll go to iphone if it's not able to be disabled. And I hate iphone.