[inghoff]

Ironically, it sounds exactly like what Apple is doing with iOS/iPhone. "All our apps should come from the app store because we review them and blah" Considering Android's position of "you can install APKs, but at your risk," I find this bizarre. Is Google slowly becoming Apple?

[chmod775]

You already have to tick a checkbox in the preferences before you can do so in android. I could imagine something similar in chromium.