@idlestate @tante @ansuz ...and this also goes some way to explain why the bait and switch went so smoothly

like, a lot of nerds' reaction to google making android more of a walled garden is "but you can just install calyx/graphene/lineage/..." despite that that's really not an option for most people AND doing that doesn't make the walls completely go away (it is a nontrivial problem for me that I can't spend money via the play store) AND those projects only exist on google's sufferance