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I don't find it reasonable that Google wants to make me wait 24h to install software on a device I own.

Meh. I get the annoyance, but it's a one time cost for a small subset of their users. I would prefer if there was a flow during device setup that allowed you to opt into developer mode (with all the attendant big scary warnings), but it's a pretty reasonable balance for the vast majority of their users. (I suspect the number of scammers that are able to get a victim to buy a whole new device and onboard it is probably very low).

Note that adb won't have the 24 hour cooldown if you're in such a hurry.

Good point, having a once off advanced option to completely bypass this at device setup would be good.

Also, other commenters have mentioned that adb is unaffected by this which makes it seem like less of a problem, to me at least. Still inconvenient that even if you adb install fdroid you can't install apps directly from it.

Get with the newspeak, it's called "sideloading" now and your corporate overlords get to dictate the terms.

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