Oh wow, you can sideload it? Amazing. All grandma has to do is install Android Studio, enable developer mode, tap the build number seven times, flip on USB debugging, plug into a laptop, accept an RSA key fingerprint, and pop open a terminal. You know, the way normal people install apps.
>> they do not actually give the user access to general purpose computing in the sense that the users can control exactly what computations the device is going to execute
i don't think we were talking about grandma use case