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Can't Linux phones run android apps pretty seamlessly via waydroid anyway though?
Increasingly lots of stuff won't work without all of the Google services. Banking apps won't run on root devices or anything odd they detect.
Even without that, I can say how seamless it is.
That's good, though I still think it's a problem they exist. I mean a lot of apps are a webpage wrapped in an app anyway, so why not just a webpage and skip the platform dependence.