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Android's new anti-theft features
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this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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Many of these are Google Play Services features, so it won't be available to users open-source Android flavors that are google-free.
Which is a fraction of a fraction of Android users.
I'm all for de Googling if that's what tickles your fancy, but ask anyone on the street and they'll have no idea what you're talking about
Edit: This also allows Google to push some of these features to older devices which may not ever see another system update
In that blog post, google does not commit to open sourcing these play services features, to integrate in future system upgrade.
I would love to be proven wrong.
Yep, no one claimed otherwise.