Amazing how bad it has gotten just in 2025 alone. We had:

-play integrity api

-changing the monthly security patches into embargoed proprietary blobs

-not releasing device trees for 10 series

-holding back the source code of QPR releases

-the upcoming app installation lockdowns

I guess Pinephone with a 20k mAh powerbank taped to the phone starts looking pretty good…

Play services and play store are not installed by default. You can choose to install them and they will be sandboxed, but out of the box you get a clean system with no Google apps out of the box.