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minus-squareiliketurtles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWon’t people just continue using the app? Wouldn’t it be as easy as side loading future installs?
minus-squareViper_NZ@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoiPhone has enormous market dominance in the US and no sideloading.
minus-squarePhAzE@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoShhh, you’re not supposed to point out Apples fla… uh, features.
minus-squareyamanii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoYou overestimate the tech literacy of the majority.
minus-squareOlgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoIt’s excruciatingly easy to side load on android, to the point where it is outright dangerous for laymen. All it will take is a 30s tiktok showing how to side load and they’re done, tech literate or not
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoIf the tutorial can’t be boiled down to a 30 second video, tiktok users aren’t going to be able to comprehend it.
minus-squareistanbullu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI expect that Tiktok will strart distributing the app as an apk on their website.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWorse. Unless they’re going to start the Great American Firewall you can just go to the website.
Won’t people just continue using the app? Wouldn’t it be as easy as side loading future installs?
iPhone has enormous market dominance in the US and no sideloading.
Shhh, you’re not supposed to point out Apples fla… uh, features.
You overestimate the tech literacy of the majority.
It’s excruciatingly easy to side load on android, to the point where it is outright dangerous for laymen.
All it will take is a 30s tiktok showing how to side load and they’re done, tech literate or not
If the tutorial can’t be boiled down to a 30 second video, tiktok users aren’t going to be able to comprehend it.
I expect that Tiktok will strart distributing the app as an apk on their website.
iPhone has left the chat.
Worse. Unless they’re going to start the Great American Firewall you can just go to the website.