The analogy would be, does the your private car allow you to change the ratio between different gears in your car. Or does it allow you to customize the sensitivity of the steering wheel arbitrarily. Or install any custom kind of AC vents in your car and allowing you to make arbitrary cuts in chassis.
Having said that,first and foremost:
Its very difficult to explain to a lot of people people's expectations of vetting and privacy. People are completely fine with FB siphoning of their data and spying on them, but they are not fine if anyone can do it. That is, there should be a barrier to installing malware on the app, and that barrier being the company being a big company is okay with most people. What they're not fine with is any random person being able to do that.
And they will blame the phone manufacturer for all bad applications that can be installed on the phone. If a phone manufacturer allows for side loading applications and a big company requires it. Then, there becomes rhe culture of side loading applications, and suddenly the platform is not safe because there's no trust in applications.
The manufactures have to ensure that people can side load their apps and at the same time ensure that all apps of relevance use platforms like playprotect so that people can be given a simple advice "only use playprotect apps".
The analogy would be, does the your private car allow you to change the ratio between different gears in your car. Or does it allow you to customize the sensitivity of the steering wheel arbitrarily. Or install any custom kind of AC vents in your car and allowing you to make arbitrary cuts in chassis.
Having said that,first and foremost:
Its very difficult to explain to a lot of people people's expectations of vetting and privacy. People are completely fine with FB siphoning of their data and spying on them, but they are not fine if anyone can do it. That is, there should be a barrier to installing malware on the app, and that barrier being the company being a big company is okay with most people. What they're not fine with is any random person being able to do that.
And they will blame the phone manufacturer for all bad applications that can be installed on the phone. If a phone manufacturer allows for side loading applications and a big company requires it. Then, there becomes rhe culture of side loading applications, and suddenly the platform is not safe because there's no trust in applications.
The manufactures have to ensure that people can side load their apps and at the same time ensure that all apps of relevance use platforms like playprotect so that people can be given a simple advice "only use playprotect apps".
I am not sure this is a solvable problem.