That sounds like a complete hallucination to me. Please reconnect with the real world.

I didn't write that very clearly. Google doesn't have a problem with non-Play and sideloaded apps being installed in general. They do have a problem with malicious apps, regardless of source.

No... I'm pretty sure it's not that. Android does protect against malicious non-Play and sideloaded apps, and Google doesn't have a problem with those being installed. (Context: From 2014 until late last year I worked on the Android security team. I have pretty good knowledge of what they do and don't care about.)

I'd like to understand exactly what this part of the Google response is talking about. Maybe it's just throwaway FUD, not referring to anything in particular, but it could also be something the EU is demanding that is actually bad for users.

Always the time-honored classic. Of course, it hastens the demise of society, but who cares about minor details like that ...

Governments are generally not made up of people with real capabilities. And the voted-for parts are worse.

Well, it can be _done_. It would still not _work_. The problem is that this would preclude use of that monitor in a lot of scenarios _and_ the ads would either get stale or you would have to magic in some network interface for the monitor.

You obviously have given up. Not everybody has.

I see you have chosen to double down on the pathetic. Well, I guess this is all you can do.

Still pathetic. Try again?

Fortunately that does not actually work. I am sure they would love to do it though.

In my experience, that's Rust. Or maybe Haskell. The more guardrails the AI has, the better.

Guidelines that get reluctantly enforced only when things blow up are not worth anything.

"Literally required"? Such nonsense. Sane driver installation is just as subject to sysadmin consent as all other software installation. What do you think how this goes if somebody manages a supply-chain attach on this, especially on, say, an industrial control system that cannot simply be turned off?

Indeed. Insecure by design. In a rational world, this designed-in vulnerability would exclude Windows from most uses.

Clearly. This LG crap-show is just one more indicator, but the fundamental problem is all Microsoft.