Comment by echelon
11 hours ago
> Technically alternative stores exist on Android.
You have to navigate five settings menus deep to enable the ability to even install them, and after that the OS scares you into thinking it'll turn your phone into a grenade.
Unless you're 0.0000001% of users, you will never do this.
Google knows what they're doing. It's the tyranny of defaults.
That's fine.
Most people are stupid.
In the modern era getting access to your personal phone let's an attacker have access to your identity, finances, etc.
A better approach would be real sandboxing, but let's not get our hopes up.