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		827a on March 19, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPh... Agreed. Its my opinion that you should be able to replace the launcher on Android devices, but the Play Store should refuse to distribute apps that do this.

nunez on March 21, 2025 [–]

I really like this.

People that know what they're doing can go nuts and sideload apks all day long, which is still more flexibility than you'll ever get with Apple.

People that barely know how to use their phone outside of a few key apps will never have to worry about this attack vector.

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