So people with very limited financial resources to begin with will be able to buy ultra-low-end phones that offer poor performance and a poor user experience. The reasoning in your first paragraph never really seems very sensible or realistic. It is a step backward in Android security. With the option for untrusted sources enabled, apps can come from any place. But I do think that malicious apps are then at least contained and controlled. I am not saying that the Google Play store is free of Malware. Once allowed, people are most likely never looking at it again.
Even if our apps are safe, we make it a little easier for that malware to get on a device.Īnd nobody will just temporarily enable 'install from untrusted sources'. And now we confuse them by saying that "our security model" is great and that it is all ok.īut it is not ok. People are advised everywhere to not enable 'Install from untrusted sources' for very good reasons: Android is plagued by an insane amount of malware. I understand why they are doing it but I think in the end it is really bad for end-user security on Android. I really wish Mozilla had just abandoned this 'repackage apps in APKs' project. In between this aim on building a more open platform for apps, there doesn't seem to be any focus in building apps or user interfaces that people would actually want to use. It feels like browsing a web page or using a web app in a mobile browser that just isn't up to the task. Pressing the back button on the device boots me out of the app instantly instead of, you know, going back.Īnd all in all, they are all just slow and clunky. Scrolling performance is strangely atrocious considering that it works fine in Firefox for Android.
I can select text by tapping and holding but can't figure out how to copy. Long pressing a link shows a context menu that lets me "open in a new tab" but there's no tab switcher to be found. This is just a wrapper on their mobile site with an ugly search bar on top. After this the entire size and scale of the user interface keeps shifting randomly. If I try to press anything in rapid succession, the entire view zooms in. Whenever I press a number, it takes a second to be actually reflected in the user interface. Because to be quite frank, they are absolutely terrible. It's hard to say this without being so negative, but I really have to wonder if any of these apps have even been tested on an Android device.
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