Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
(www.androidauthority.com)
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In itself true, but if you have several competing distros then you run into the problem of attracting developers to the platform if none have a solid market share. It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, if a platform doesn't have a sizable user base it's hard to attract developers and it's hard to get a user base without readily available apps.