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How do you get those Android apps without sideloading? How do you find them? How do you participate in the wider Android ecosystem?

The AVP has a much stronger OS and software ecosystem play; you can just download and use your regular iOS apps, and multitask with ease in a variety of scenarios.

I want the Quest 3 to be able to compete with that, but it's not there yet. Perhaps Google and Samsung will be able to pull it together for their take?

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You do have to sideload, and that will turn off plenty of people, but probably not most of the people here. It's just a matter of following the instructions on the Sidequest website. For my use, just putting F-Droid on it gives me access to everything I would want, including other app stores. After that, everything is installed and updated like any other Android device. I wish the interface supported more than running 3 apps side-by-side, like pinning apps to walls of environments, which Apple seems to be doing. I'm sure that Meta will end up copying popular features of the Vision Pro in time, just like Android and iOS have been copying each other for years now.

>The AVP has a much stronger OS and software ecosystem play; you can just download and use your regular iOS apps.

We are literally discussing big companies not checking a checkbox that allows their existing apps on AVP