"Google's not a monopoly like apple you can install any store!"
Have you tried using Android on a phone without Google Play and the kernel level Google tools? It's impossible to install most apps.
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Yes, yes I have. MicroG works quite nicely. But yea the situation still sucks...
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As more apps get updated to the android sdk for os9 it gets harder to use apps. GSF drm gets ridiculous
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Even apps on the Amazon app store no longer work without GSF tools unless they've been abandoned
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Non Google apps don't work sometimes too.
Even signal wont work without the Google kernel stuff. I actually can't use signal on my phone because it doesn't have Google's kernels. A lot of people who "don't use Google on android" are still using them.
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Signal explicitly chooses to use Play services SDK for certain functionality. It works fine without any form of Google Play being supported by the OS. Android SDK does not include Play services by default. It's their very explicit choice to include those proprietary libraries.
There's no kernel integration for Play services. It's a set of apps which vendors bundle into the OS and grant extensive privileges via custom SELinux policy, privileged permissions and configuration for the OS setting Play services as a provider for various APIs.
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It doesn't do what's claimed in this thread. It's not how things work and the things that are claimed to exist here do not exist. I don't know where that's coming from but it's extraordinarily inaccurate / baseless. Android SDK is open source and doesn't include Play by default.
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