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digi_owl on Feb 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tablet shipments decline 10.1% in 2015

And what would native be in the case of Android?

Flip the "unknown sources" setting and you can dump any random APK onto it.

The tablet market neither begins nor ends with iPad.

pixl97 on Feb 2, 2016 [–]

Being that endymi0n was talking about an iPad, it certainly relates to the conversation.

digi_owl on Feb 3, 2016 | [–]

And dismissing the whole product category after having encountered only the most restrictive entry seems hasty.

I will admit that Android has issues as well, but running arbitrary code is not one of them.

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