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> The Play integrity API is not part of AOSP. Remote attestation does restrict your device from doing anything.

It prevents you from using apps that require it.

> A new attestation API can be made if you want to offer remote attestation to apps.

In other words, you can't use the existing apps.

> Amazon successfully did it

The Amazon Fire phone was discontinued after only a year.

> It just means that it will take longer if a there is trouble in finding investors.

What investors? The purpose of Debian is not to make money, it's to make operating system.

And if "take longer" means after we're all dead, that's not sufficient.

> The standard 30% cut can be used to make it sustainable to support the operating system and fund getting apps into the store.

30% of nothing is nothing.

Moreover, the 30% is a monopoly rent -- they only get away with it because they're the only viable store for that platform. Who is going to pay 30% in a competitive market?

> It isn't great because it sets back the security of the industry back a couple years each time an exploit allowing this is found.

They find new ones every year. :)




>It prevents you from using apps that require it.

Then don't use that app. The app won't work on a different phone Linux distro either.

>The Amazon Fire phone was discontinued after only a year.

The Amazon app store still exists. Windows even partenered with Amazon to bring their app store to Windows.

>What investors? The purpose of Debian is not to make money, it's to make operating system.

Making a successful operating system is much easier if you have funding.

>30% of nothing is nothing.

Even the Ubuntu software store was able to find people willing to buy software off of it.

>Moreover, the 30% is a monopoly rent -- they only get away with it because they're the only viable store for that platform. Who is going to pay 30% in a competitive market?

That is part of the business strategy that will need to be figured out.

>They find new ones every year. :)

Yes, but it is something we can get better at preventing and detecting to the point where it stops happening every year.




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