> Google has deliberately made it essentially impossible to do this. No, users have made it essentially impossible to do this. In other words: the majority of

> Google has deliberately made it essentially impossible to do this. No, users have made it essentially impossible to do this. In other words: the majority of users don't care about the problems of developers. They just want apps without having to think about where they come from, and the simplest way to do that is to use Google Play if they have an Android phone. That's not a Google problem. That's a user problem. If it's indeed a problem. And the way for developers to fix it, if it needs to be fixed, is to not give users apps if users insist on only using Google Play. Make it so users have to go elsewhere to get apps at all, because developers refuse to "play" on Google Play, so there aren't any apps there. Then users will be on the same side as developers, and there are a lot more users.