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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by minimaxir on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:15PM (#17735603)
> It also completely ignores how much Fortnite will lose from people who don't install it because they can't figure out how.

Like Snapchat, this may be a case where deliberately counterintuitive behavior may actually help, since sideloading will now become "cool" for the teenagers/millennials it targets.

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by solarkraft on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:26PM (#17736096)
It will probably introduce some people to die loading and, by disabling the prevention, maybe enable some malware APKs to be accidentally installed.

Not that much interesting software is available from outside the Play Store. Only OGYoutube comes to my mind here.

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by gaius on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:48PM (#17735824)
will now become "cool"

If it does and becomes the «new normal» then that could cost Google alot more...

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