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Epic moved on from games versus apps pretty quick — now we’re in sideload land.

Epic lawyer John Hueston did quickly present the read-between-the-lines idea that it might be unfair that Spotify can use its own payments system while game developers cannot.

But we’re now looking at a painfully slow walkthrough of how many steps it took (in 2015) to sideload an app on a phone — far longer than it takes a user to actually do this themselves.

I wonder if Google will pull out a phone and show literally just how fast it goes. Still, I admit the sideloading process includes some scary warnings.

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