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No, not ", including sideloading."

It's ", including installing software". Lets not let the enemy of general purpose computing define the framing of the discussion.

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This article isn't about the installation of regular apps. The "sideloading" it's referring to is the option to use the "adb sideload <OTA file>" command when booted into recovery mode to install OS updates. The functionality being removed is being able to install a proper OEM-signed OS update from a local file.

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