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| Halcyon:
Louis Rossmann released this moments ago and it's certainly a very interesting concept. |
| ataradov:
This violates YT ToS. It will never be approved for the Play Store, so you will be limited to side-loading weird APKs. This is DOA. |
| Halcyon:
I'm not so sure. Side-loading applications (into Android at least) is painless and is not uncommon among "power users". Of course, there needs to be a level of trust associated with it, which making the codebase open source considerably helps with. There are some people who use their phones entirely without Google Play services installed. I think these are the sorts of people that this application would appeal to the most. Louis Rossmann's target audience has largely been aimed at the technical user, rather than end-user's who would rather just watch TikTok all day. I believe it has merits and I'm sure Rossmann and others have done their homework in terms of any legal issues which might arise. As for Google's terms of service, sure it would prevent it from being listed on the Play store, but who cares? End-users aren't likely to care (or even read) those terms, let alone comply with them. It'll be interesting to see where (if anywhere) this goes. |
| ataradov:
Ok, 3.5 geeks may install it. What is the point? There is a lot of talk about the creators, but creators are not going to benefit from this at all. I may be missing something, of course, but I really don't get it. Also, making code base open is really bad if you are going to encourage side loading. Anyone can build bitcoin miner into it and start distributing a custom APK. And a small spend on google ads will make sure your bad APK is at the top of search results. Obviously it will only matter if this thing becomes popular. |
| Halcyon:
Yep, maybe. Again, something I'm sure they've thought of. How they mitigate that, I don't know. I'm merely saying the concept is interesting and Rossmann isn't the type of person to go into something half-cocked. |
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