I'd imagine the volume we're discussing aren't even aware of options outside of the appstore.
A study was done a while back of average user competence and when given the task of arranging a meeting in a calendar app for a time where all participants could attend (given calendar conflicts) a meagre 5% of participants succeeded. The bar is tragically low for technical literacy and 95% of people (ballpark) fail to clear it. I'd imagine the first time these sorts of people are aware of side-loading is when they get scammed by being told to side-load some malware. So for these people they wouldn't even notice their digital rights being eroded or taken away completely, because they don't even understand how or why they'd be important.
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I'd imagine the volume we're discussing aren't even aware of options outside of the appstore.
A study was done a while back of average user competence and when given the task of arranging a meeting in a calendar app for a time where all participants could attend (given calendar conflicts) a meagre 5% of participants succeeded. The bar is tragically low for technical literacy and 95% of people (ballpark) fail to clear it. I'd imagine the first time these sorts of people are aware of side-loading is when they get scammed by being told to side-load some malware. So for these people they wouldn't even notice their digital rights being eroded or taken away completely, because they don't even understand how or why they'd be important.