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> With all Android devices that aren't managed (read: business device), you can sideload a third party app store without the need to use system exploits to 'jailbreak.'

Is an average Android user actually going to do any of that?

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Sideloading apps is very easy (albeit you have to press “okay” on a very scary looking warming page). Plenty of people do, to play Fortnight or install the Amazon App Store, for instance.

> Is an average Android user actually going to do any of that?

It really doesn't matter if the average Android user will do it.

What matters is that you have the option to do so.

I think it only matters if that was the expectation when you purchased it. Nobody buys an iPhone with the expectation that they’ll be able to install apps anywhere outside of the App Store. In fact, a single place to buy and install apps is a selling point to many people.

Nobody? Not one single person?

That must be why there isn't a large jailbreaking community behind iOS.

Or why there hasn't been a lawsuit over...

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