Comment by marcprux

I do think that this very much puts Google in the same boat as Apple in terms of how the GPL is deemed compatible or not for distribution to their platforms and proprietary stores.

Personally, I think that the GPL is still compatible with both platforms, as I've written about before[1]. There's plenty of GPL software on both the Play Store and App Store (Signal, Element, Wordpress, SimpleNote, Bitwarden, Mastodon, Telegram, and Proton Mail, just to name a few), but people tend to feel that iOS is a more hostile environment. The mandatory developer registration requirement may bring a more even-handed assessment of how the GPL and these app stores can live together.

[1] https://appfair.org/blog/gpl-and-the-app-stores