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If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

Oh well can't change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It's a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren't clairvoyant.)

There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won't even run on customer Android ROMs easily.

The regulators are needed here.

All of the alternatives eventually run into the same "Will my banking app work on it?" problem. The absence of a healthy app economy is the one thing that can't be fixed by throwing software engineers at it, and it is what caused the death of Windows Phone.

i hope linux phones succeed

The issue is the hardware, we already have software

OK but that is about a 10000x bigger project

here it makes at least some sense to verify that each person voted once. the mail list stuff is of course to much and should be optional from the beginning.

Not only would that solve this little problem, it would reduce Google's power and remove one's data from the claws of US authorities (were the Patriot and Cloud acts let them mass track everybody using a Google product).

Just make sure you chose a non-US Linux phone.

I don't want to buy a new phone

Most of the world can't afford to buy one specific android and hope not to brick it. Most people can't afford a google pixel and if they can, aren't going to risk it.

And what happens when google cuts off third party tools like MicroG. I need WhatsApp for almost everything from talking to family and friends to Work. Most of the world does, and the same is true for Facebook.

I am not so sure. It creats activity, being passive is worse. We should encourage all type of protests, even petitions.

There are already some movements, like #Keep Android Open that ask to contact local regulators and law makers, this petition is useful to have a concrete number of people that agree and that can be used officially

Companies have reversed unpopular decisions in the past (just saw a thing about Facebook reversing some AI thing). So there may be some possible chance of them reversing this decision. I'm not hopeful but the cost is cheap, and it has a better chance of success than doing nothing

That's great and all but the current linux phone offerings are... not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.

A. It's not an OS update. It's part of Google Play Services.
B. I'm pretty sure this applies even on Android 12 because it's Google Play Services. Years back, Google started moving functionality like this into Google Play Services so your phone could get new features even if you had a bad manufacturer and OS updates were months or even years behind. It was introduced as a feature then.
C. This does work, but some apps (notably banking apps) block non-Google Android, even if there is no legitimate security reason for doing so. This will vary by OS and even phones running the same OS. Official GrapheneOS builds for officially supported devices probably have the best compatibility with apps in terms of the apps not blocking your phone. Maybe there are some rooted phones that patch apps to bypass "integrity" checks. Some features of your phone just will not work, even if you have a third-party OS with official support for your phone (contactless payments). Hopefully the EU gets on this and at least Europeans or people who can trick their phones into thinking they are Europeans will get some of their control back.
D. Most people can't live without the apps that are available only on Google's store or that require Google Play Services. That's most apps. Even if you don't need those specific apps, you will need to deal with other stuff like setting up Unified Push if you want to receive timely notifications. My parents are not going to set up a Unified Push gateway.

I think the goal is to push it silently as a Google system service, rather than wait for manufacturers to ship an OS or app store update.

There’s a real possibility your phone already has Android Developer Verifier installed and sitting dormant until enforcement begins.

You can check for the package now:

"com.google.android.verifier"

If it's there...well...