[ocdtrekkie]

I met her once at Google I/O, and it wasn't a pleasant interaction. I was lamenting how the recent (at the time) switch from USB Mass Storage to MTP made file transfers to and from computers very iffy. (And it's still pretty iffy today.) I was asking why the change was made, and if there was a chance at the option for it being restored, as devices used to allow both.

A lot of times, files on the Android device don't show up properly in Windows Explorer. She asked what I was doing, and I said copying APK files. (I regularly used to backup APKs so I could revert software updates which degraded the experience.)

She immediately stated that they "didn't support piracy" and walked off. As if the process of sideloading APKs or transferring them to and from a PC was somehow automatically illicit activity, rather than... something a lot of developers probably do regularly.

[ffiw]

I see Android guys lack commonsense and I am not surprised. How did they think you are pirating apk's after attending I/O event that costs fortune to enter ?