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Source for this ban claim?
I know there is a ban on not being able to install unsigned apps, but it won't limit apps to only Google Play apps.
Please, while the whole situation is BS, adding complete misinformation to the mix isn't going to help.
Source: Google themselves.
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification
It never fails to amuse me how confidently wrong some people can be when they don't even read what they link to.
Because, you know, if you did read that link, you'd know how wrong you were.
What's wrong about:
I don't want to suck Google's dick and create a Google account to send my applications to people who want to sideload them.
You were confidently wrong about me being a regular user. Nice try though.
You literally pointed out that sideloading will still be available, which is what this is about. It's not about if developers need to be registered, that's its own issue with is separate own issue. Blocking sideloading means no more 3rd party stores, which will still be very much allowed even in these ruling.
And when did I say anything about you being any type of user, regular or otherwise? And what does that have to do with anything about this false claim that sideloading will be banned?
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Or are you taking confidently wrong to a whole new level?
Sideloading with a central authority is not sideloading.
Oh, of course. When you get trapped in your confidently wrong BS, you move the goal post.
The whole thread is about supposedly not being able to install beyond the Google Play Store, its literallyin the posts title. Trying to rewrite what "sideloading" is now isn't helping you're argument.