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We hereby grant you a conditional right to install software on the device you "own", subject to conditions, and terms, but only under certain circumstances and only so long as it pleases us.

Modern handheld computing is such a shitshow...

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Yeah, to me android is another Linux machine. I can change the date and for the device it's tomorrow. At least should be. What then? Will it accept the apk I just installed because it's tomorrow? Or reject because of no lease token from the one-almighty-Google? Or maybe it won't work at all when offline even with offline apk?

If I was a hostile phone OS designer, I would make it use the time reference given by nearby cell networks, GPS, or an RTC in the motherboard rather than the local clock. That’s closer to ‘true’ time if you want to make sure a day has actually passed.

Yeah but android runs on a number of devices that have no GPS and network. Car radios, tablet etc. Location can be turned off too

So Google proved that Android is not Linux. Time to switch to actual (GNU/)Linux phones?

Sent from my Librem 5.

"hand held computing" indeed.

Come on, this is a totally reasonable approach that should help a bit with high pressure scan tactics but doesn't really hurt side-loading.

As long as they keep it like this. The existence of the "only allow side-loading for 7 days" option is definitely worrying.

I find it unacceptable, and they will not keep it like this. They will boil the frog slowly, as usual.

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