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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

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424 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.38s | source
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billev2k ◴[13 Oct 25 16:35 UTC] No.45570345[source]▶
The Android Developer Blog called it "an ID check at the airport which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags."

From the mouths of rubes, I guess. The ID check at the airport has zero to do with safety or security and everything to do with the airlines' business model (no secondary market for tickets), enforced by government.

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1. gruez ◴[13 Oct 25 17:05 UTC] No.45570742[source]▶
>The ID check at the airport has zero to do with safety or security and everything to do with the airlines' business model (no secondary market for tickets), enforced by government.

If it's really about protecting "airlines' business model", why did TSA recently start requiring REAL ID to board flights? Were airlines really losing substantial amounts of money through forged drivers licenses that they felt they needed to crack down?