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As a practical matter, though, only a very small number of people will ever do that. Being kicked out of the play store is almost always going to be a death sentence for the app.

Apple has earned plenty of criticism themselves, but I do appreciate that they curate the app store with humans.

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But if both Apple and Google remove your app from their stores, at least Android has a fairly straightforward method for your users to install it straight from your website.

For iOS your users will have to sign it themselves (but still via Apple, who could block that too) with their own developer account, just to get a time-limited install. Or, even worse, use a jailbroken device to work around all this.

Maybe we should be jailbreaking again

They should kick Facebook out of the play store. See what happens. Facebook can then pivot to paying OEMs even bigger sums of money to bundle it with their devices.

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