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Example of a legit reason to need sideloading: bypassing wrongful assumptions.

a US company I worked for at a non-US office (imagine it was e.g. Google Japan) gave most employees a corporate credit card. Citibank made it impossible to download their app through the Play Store from the country in question, even though it was required to use it. Only option was to sideload it.

This kind of thing has happened on other occasions as well.




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