MrScottyTay

Then you’re just installing from the play store are you not? If you want to use f-droid or something else you initially have to start with getting their .apk do you not? Or am I mistaken and misremembering?

I feel like if someone knows what an .apk is and where to download them, they’ll also know how to search for how to install them

But the sideloading flow via dev options that they have revealed doesn’t require that and it’s easy to do…

When i was a kid, blackberries were more common than android. At least in my area it was the “in” thing to be on BBM

They want developers to share their IDs to have their apps on the play store. The limited groups is so hobbyist developers can still share apps without having to jump through those hoops and so the users don’t need to go and enable sideloading, with the caveat that there’s a call on how many users you can send it to it looks like.