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It is said that sideloading in Android will essentially be disabled in an upcoming release. It will still be possible for that small handful of nerds who know how to enable developer mode and install an .apk via ADB, but for the vast majority of people, the Google Play store is only going to become further entrenched as their sole source of apps.



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