>>536819806
>As long as the APK is signed by the developer (which costs the developer, not the end user, around a hundred bucks a year), it'll still install just fine.
It's my device. I'll run the binaries I want. I will not pay anyone anything.
Anything else is flagrantly unacceptable for both users and developers.
I can run unsigned binaries on Windows, I just have to tell it I'm ignoring a warning.
If I can't bypass an unsigned binaries warning, it's not a computer or smartphone, it's a Nintendo Console.
We will not be gatekeeping software development behind an arbitrary price tag, and no one but the Japanese and Americans would ever suggest something so disgusting. Even half of the American software industry would be disgusted by it.

This isn't even some linux stallman freetard thing. Windowsbabbies and the Android userbase at large also feel this way and see it as a defining feature of their platforms that allows them to look down on Apple.

I'm also pretty sure something like this would break all existing translation patches for SC and GK, so nah, not cool.