But the app might refuse to run without those checks being done. Or a new format, apkx2 I don't know, might only be able to be decrypted with the proper key and only once verification. It's not a new tactic. I'm very, very glad to see this type of development finally happening (though, admittedly, a couple decades later than of hoped), but it's now a new ballgame, and google owns the stadium, the seating pricing, and concessions, the parking lot, and ticketing counter. I'm concerned we've waited too long. What's GOS's plans for this? They're, essentially, going to have to create a new ecosystem, with most of the growing pains of new ecosystems.