Amazon kills sideloading in new Fire Sticks (unless you’re a developer)
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We really need to kill sideloading as a concept. It's my hardware once I buy it. That's the way it's worked for hundreds of years. I won't tolerate this malarkey.
sideloadingA friend says that the Onn devices still sideload and have more memory and storage anyway.
I switched from fire stick to onn box and it works good enough and can play emulators. I had to "side load" retroarch as the one in the play store didn't n't work as it wasn't the latest version. All I really care about is smart tube though.