Comment by Imustaskforhelp

That is a very very weird spot that I would be limited to.

I can have my phone right now which has f-droid and download apps directly without requiring any other device anywhere as long as I have internet access to download the apk or I have the apk

With adb, I would need to have another specific device with me which can get real uncomfortable/ be a real breaker for a lot of times.

On top of my mind, I see myself being in the metro downloading games on f-droid to see the state of open source games, I couldn't imagine myself having a laptop in that time, and neither did I have a laptop. I just had a pc back then.

Also a huge % of people who are using f-droid right now would just not do things like adb etc. which are a huge breaker I suppose and in the end it is a huge net negative for the community/ecosystem/still goes against the right to run as I had mentioned.

But I also didn't know that adb was still enabled, I had actually thought that you genuinely couldn't run any app except google's developer registration AT ALL.

but this is also a slippery slope and what prevents them from blocking that too. unless we fight against this, it sets a really really bad precedent for them to follow/essentially dictate my hardware in the future.