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Sideloading an app is not a sustainable way to distribute a commercial app. It's even more fragile than the official route, and it's a lot to ask of an end user, not to mention the sketchy feel to it.



Tell that to the hundreds of developers using sideloading to distribute thousands of successful apps on Quest: https://sidequestvr.com/

Or to the thousands of Mac developers who sideload their app without the App Store.

Or to the tens of thousands of Windows developers who distribute apps through freestanding MSI and EXE files...




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