Verified developer
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i do not like this, will third party ROMs be the only options going forward?
Well it says next year. And a lot could happen between then and now. Some comments think they will run into anti trust issues trying this.
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Classic corporate move: come in attractive (open, rootable, etc) and once the competition is gone slowly make it more profitable on the customers expense.
Classic Google move as well.
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How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn't sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load
they want to identify them, and issue cease and desist, or buy them out, thats the real reason, and to acquire thier OS to lock down android even harder
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You are likely thinking of google play protect, which does the same verification on their platform's end (to try to remove bad actor developer accounts as soon as possible), and the local device end as well (to remove said developers apps if they are already installed on your device). But yes, at the base level, what arrives on your phone from the play store are just signed apk files. That's why mirror sites like apkmirror or apkpure can do what they do, by extracting said apks after they have been released onto the play store.
That's not quite all of it. It can also do diff updates (so you don't have to download the whole apk), staged rollouts and different builds for different devices. And of course it provides APIs for license management, in app purchases, update notifications, etc.
All of this could be achieved by using other services (like F-Droid) or custom build websites, but the convenience for the everyday user isn't quite the same. -
Classic corporate move: come in attractive (open, rootable, etc) and once the competition is gone slowly make it more profitable on the customers expense.
Don't be evil, completely dominate several markets, be evil.
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Tldr: if the device has google play services it will prevent u installing any app that doesn't have a developer who has handed their real identity over to google.
Would it be possible to adb force remove them and then no longer have a "certified" device?
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How is this going to be enforced if you are just downloading apks? It states they will enforce verification across sources outside of the play store. This doesn't sound possible unless they just make stock android unable to side load
Doesn't this clearly breach the DMA?
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Would it be possible to adb force remove them and then no longer have a "certified" device?
Most Roms these days allow disabling the google play store, you don't even need root to do it. Since enforcement will likely use the same tech as Play Protect (but without consent settings) disabling Play Store, and possibly GMS too will kill it outright.
They might implent changes in future Android versions to make this more difficult if not impossible though.
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Would it be possible to adb force remove them and then no longer have a "certified" device?
For the moment yes. How log that's gonna last is definitely debatable.
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i do not like this, will third party ROMs be the only options going forward?
I recommend you look into them, no matter what happens.
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Why do we even call it "sideloading"? I can install whatever I want on desktop, even whatever OS, so why not my phone? It is my phone, right?
I do not call it side-loading. Two of my tablets don't have any Google on it. The phone is running Play Services in a sandbox, as one of several options to get software.
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It can be disabled, right? Right?
Yes. It's called custom ROMs.
