[colejohnson66]

Didn’t Epic initially go around the Play Store and require you to download an installer from their website? And then it turned out that it was a good malware vector? That’s what I fear will happen if we get alternate stores: lax security leading to malware.

[ac29]

Yes, it had a bug that could lead to a different malicious application being able to install its own APKs: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112630336

[Kuinox]

Make it that you must sign the binaries. Google distribute/manage the keys, but are not allowed to veto legal things.

[colejohnson66]

That serves no purpose. If Google can’t veto any signature requests, it’s no different than having no signature at all; You’ll just have signed malware.

[Kuinox]

They must have a valid reason, not "they don't use our payment processing"