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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?

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

Sent from my Librem 5.

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

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