Never buy a phone through a service provider.
They can go fuck themselves if it’s installed as a system app
It probably will have to to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings: allow app installation to be as seamless as Play Store (which has root access or similar).
No, that would just require the permisson for the Epic Store to install APKs to be granted out of the box, no need for it to be a system app for that
If the permission is granted, the native/session APK installer still handles every install and update, including its “Do you want to install/update this app?” popup. Only root and system apps can do installs and updates silently.
Huh? I’m pretty sure fdroid did a silent update without asking me. I think Aurora store also did silent updates. I mean, I still have to allow it once, then afterwards it didn’t need my permission.
What android version are you on? I’m on the latest Android 14.
I’m on Android 13. The following installation methods are available in Aurora Store, and all except Root produce confirmation popups.
Session installer ⚫
Session based installer for bundled/split APKs
Recommended, in-built and supports all Android versionsNative installer (Deprecated) ⚫
Intent based installer, available on all devices
Best suited for devices running below Android 4.4Root installer 🔘
Shell based installer using root permissions
Requires root/superuser privileges, supports all Android versions.
Epic: “Steam has an unfair monopoly!”
epic gets pre installed as bloat ware on a bunch of phones
Epic: “What? We never said we didn’t like monopolies, we just don’t like Steam being the ones with the monopoly!”
yay! more bloatware!
Who asked? If they cared about users they would install F-droid not Epic store.
Serious question though, why? It’s not like they offer a ton of apps. It’s not a real app store, it’s effectively just a launcher for the 3-4 apps they have.
Because Google is a monopoly and epic sued in the right places.
Google is by no means a monopoly. There is iOS, few other systems, and even on android you have a dozen of stores.
And the pre-installed Google apps package deal is completely fine. You get a system you would have to spend billions on, infrastructure, verified brand, and much more, and you get their product for the price of bundling it with few more, which end user can just not use or even debloat.
You must really hate Google to think this is in an way unfair.
