The two security features Google Play provides beyond web-installed APKs are the malware scanner that runs during app submission, and the ability to quickly delist apps that are discovered to be bad. Both could be opened up to all software sources rather easily.
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And that’s it! There isn’t any magical security pixie dust achievable only with a smartphone app store monopoly. Any talk of this by platform companies is just silly propaganda.
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Been advocating for an open iOS in public and private for a few years now, seehttps://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/17/epics-tim-sweeney-doubles-down-on-uwp-criticism-challenges-apple-to-rethink-closed-ios-platform.aspx …
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Tim I can't even load up Fortnite without it crashing and Norton keeps saying there's a virus in the Fortnite files
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Since when is Android an open platform?
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...a self-published/bootstrapped APK pinned to a (custom) CA? (...Android currently doesn't perform CA verification for application certificates.)
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