Comment by bitwize

Most consumers DON'T CARE. They want their phones to access Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Bluesky, their banking, shopping, and food order apps, etc. If anything they'd be glad to know that Google is stopping entire classes of malware at the source. This is an anti-techie move, not an anti-consumer move. Only techies care about being able to run any software you want on a device you own. Most people don't really want to own a computer because owning one means you are responsible for administrating it, and that's well beyond normies' capability and/or well outside the things they want to spend time or energy fucking with. They just want access to what the computer enables.

Continuing to bang on this drum has "less space than a Nomad, lame" energy. Except it's political, so you sound even more like an autistic loon. Start thinking, techies. Not everybody is remotely like you. 99% of Google's customer base don't care about this, and Google may have actually increased Android's value to end users.