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I can install a non-Google-approved app on my phone via the normal phone UI, without having to exploit any kind of bug in the system (I do have to set a checkbox in the settings). That's a very concrete difference.

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Is that so much better? You can do the same on iOS now, if you have a mac, by sideloading from the mac.

Android has been losing openness, iOS has been gaining it, they've finally met in the middle with the Android 7 release.

>by sideloading from the mac

So not the same, then.

Used to work for a company bug testing their app. We used a service called installr which worked on both devices. On iOS you installed a certificate/profile and on android, it downloaded an apk which then got installed manually. 100% of the time it was easier and quicker on iOS. And this was downloaded from the internet, not a mac.

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