Comment by wilsonnb3
9 days ago
> On hardware devices owned by consenting adults, without anything related to Google, or touching their servers, still they allow themselves a right to review
Aren’t the changes only for Google certified Android devices, AKA those that come with the play store?
As said by others, first it will be hard to find smartphones without that, especially if it is a requirement to be android certified and be allowed to have the play store running.
But, the biggest trap that we can easily expect is that a lot of apps like banking apps will use Google API to check that they can only run on devices with the check for signatures. Same as the check for rooted devices.
Which accounts for any Android device normies can be expected to own. What, you think your aunt Louise is going to flash GrapheneOS onto her phone?
Only? This is everything except Huawei.