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I am convinced it won't go anywhere. It is not prohibiting app installs outside the Play Store: it's enforcing that apps installed on certified Android devices
by palata 1y ago
I am convinced it won't go anywhere. It is not prohibiting app installs outside the Play Store: it's enforcing that apps installed on certified Android devices are signed by a valid Play developer account.
If I understand it correctly, it means that you could get a valid developer account and never put your app on the Play Store. Instead people could sideload it.
- haute_cuisine 1y agoThis sounds very similar to mac apps that should be signed by valid apple dev account.
- Disposal8433 1y agoIt is prohibiting in a few ways: relying on a company in a foreign country, and no alternative if your account gets randomly banned. Also what would happen to developers in embargoed countries? Those are unacceptable to developers outside of the USA.
- palata 1y agoThose are good point!