alt Hacker News> “For a lot of people in the world, their phone is their only computer, and it stores some of their most private information,” Samat said.
Not applying the policy to adb installs makes a lot more sense if the people this is trying to protect don't have a computer
I've seen a few apps that run locally on Android and hook into the ADB connection over loopback networking to do certain things.
This just adds the step of "download Cool ABD Installer from the play store" to the set of directions I would think.