Posted by rom1v 10/28/2025
You can't? THEN YOU DON'T OWN YOUR PHONE.
Simple as that.
And at the same time, the target audience interested in installing a custom Android fork would be much smaller than the potential target audience for F-Droid in its current form.
(Also, for the time being, a much more minimally invasive and less resource-intensive approach would be some sort of Shizuku-like approach, i.e. using the ADB network interface originally intended for wireless debugging.)
Otherwise they wouldn't buy android devices, right? Thats how freemarket works.
Its much easier for people to give away their freedom to install any software on their device in exchange of not learning all the intricacies of information security and privacy.
EVerybody still can install non native os on their device and use any store they want, right? Or fork android and maintain the OS that allows installing software from other sources.
Its just people don't really care - google is not non profit - its doing business for people who pay money and care more about passing the security reaponsibility on the manufacturer, thats why Apple thrives and nobody cares that you have to use their store only, only minority of people who are not an interesting market
When you install Git Bash, Vim or GIMP on Microsoft Windows, you are side loading.
So what happens in China? Should we buy Chinese Android phones?
They say one thing, then do another.