Of course, though, you can distribute your own app stores on Android via sideloading a la F-Droid and Epic Games. Perhaps in 2011, it just didn’t seem as doable

Of course, though, you can distribute your own app stores on Android via sideloading a la F-Droid and Epic Games. Perhaps in 2011, it just didn’t seem as doable, or maybe sideloading was disabled by more vendors... not sure.