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Re: Letting developers install "3rd party" packages

 

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Well, Marc's point isn't to make it difficult-- we should allow for it
> and it should be easy for a developer to opt into; it's just that we we
> can't control if OEMs disable it or if movie providers will require us
> to disable DRM when in insecure mode.

Right. For a developer, that's fine. How about for a user that wants
to side-load apps?  I don't think having them side-load developer keys
is a reasonable proposition.

What would this be like for a user, who wants to install a click
package they downloaded from a website?


--
Martin


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