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GrapheneOS calls out Google for their recent actions (i.imgur.com)

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Sideloading is fundamental to Android, and it's not going anywhere. As we said in our blog, our new developer identity requirements are designed to protect users and developers from bad actors, not to limit choice. We want to make sure that if you download an app from a developer, regardless of where you get it, it's actually from them. That's it.

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

I think it will have to go that direction. The mobile os space was killed off to get us here so it could be controlled.

Sadly, as others have mentioned, you would need a hardware manufacturer that doesn't have current stakes with any of the major players nor the mobile carriers. The carriers could blacklist homebrew or small shop hardware by imei if google or apple wanted it.

Maybe the future is a mobile hotspot in one pocket and a Linux phone in the other. Not super appealing and converging the hardware into something reasonable but still segregated would be pretty ugly.

Things aren't looking good kids.