Have you considered a side-load option (not through Google Play)?
Why is that not an option?
Has someone documented the process and all the options in hosting your own app independent of Google Play?
What are the drawbacks?
Why is that not an option?
Has someone documented the process and all the options in hosting your own app independent of Google Play?
What are the drawbacks?
Furthermore, even if they somehow understand how to do it, Google chrome and Android OS work together to make it extremely scary sounding for end users.
The combined messaging is akin to:
"you're about to infect your own baby with HIV, press [ok] to cancel or [cancel] to abort operation and report as malware to goggle."
This isn't anticompetitive, is it? Gargoygle is only trying to keep you safe by preventing you from running what you want on your own device. There are no other possible solutions to protect people from malware, dummy! /s
Capitalism seems pretty effective compared to tested alternatives, but it sure does encourage a lot of counterproductive and nasty stomp-and-screw-the-little-people behaviors.
Because the vast majority of android users only download apps through the play store.