Stop calling it sideloading.
Its called "installing software", on a computer, that you own.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the point of buying a Fire Stick? Pretty sure most people bought that thing as an affordable Android TV box.
Edit: Typo
There's some inherent value of having competing companies trying make their Smart Stick an option on any TV. Amazon is more likely to sue, I don't know, Samsung if their TVs forced you to log into a Samsung account before using the Amazon stick. The average consumer sure won't be able to sue.
(I don't know how restrictive smart TVs are, though, and at this point I'm afraid to find out.)
That's never going to happen
A computer you can't install anything on? Wtf is the point in that
Tell that to all the people who buy Rokus.
Wtf is a rokus
It's a smart tv with Roku
They are sticks too. They were kinda the first of them.
Oku rokus
In an ideal world, they would get 0 sales.
I talk to streamers every day for work. They will buy whatever they are told to buy. It amazes me how people will buy hacked firesticks or modified apks in an Android TV device for $300, and explain they "beat the system". If the long term claim is money savings, they'll believe it. If it's easier, they'll buy it. I stopped using Firesticks when I noticed they had constant traffic of 40kb/s even when not in use. Even data sharing would only be pulling at certain times I would think.
I just want to see people out there figure out how to rip applications out of Amazons walled garden and see how difficult it is to run them on regular Linux desktops. Maybe React Native here ends up being a win for Steam Machines and home theater Linux
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