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The "use/build your own something else" argument is no longer valid when the ones imposing such requirements have effectively become a monopoly.

>>userbi+(OP)
Can you name a single important service that will use this technology which has a monopoly on that type of service, where there is no alternative?

>>googlr+x8
Everything on every single app store in existence today. Even Android apps now have the ability to require hardware attestation and lock out access to rooted phones.

>>matheu+C9
No app store forces remote attestation. Some offer APIs to do it.

>>charci+0c
And eventually everything essential will be using those APIs and we'll be locked out.