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The big concern is that once these apps are blocked from the official store then they lose a lot of the audience. And then there might be less interest in developing for a very niche community of people who jailbreak their phones.
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They basically require you to stop using the play store at this point. I guess you can only use Aurora to avoid this.
The big concern is that once these apps are blocked from the official store then they lose a lot of the audience. And then there might be less interest in developing for a very niche community of people who jailbreak their phones.