You would still be able to adb installs them. They wouldn't die.

Developers of these apps would have little motivation if the maximum audience size was cut down to the very few who would use adb. The ecosystem would die.

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userbinator 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Or someone comes up with an easy adb wrapper and now it becomes the go-to way to install apps.

	▲	xyzzy_plugh 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Shizuku[0][1] already exists, it would certainly suck but it wouldn't be the end of the world. Of course I would be much happier if I didn't need to use Shizuku in the first place. [0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=moe.shizuku.pr... [1]: https://shizuku.rikka.app/

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gblargg 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Somehow I think having to use ADB instead of something like F-Droid with automatic updates would put a damper on things.

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AuthError 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how many people ll do this though? i would expect sub 1% conversion from existing users if they had to do that

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