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They're claiming it security authentication.
Realistically, it's keeping people in their walled garden.
You can use a web browser on a Linux computer and get right through, this change is to force people to only run latest generation google products.
This would also block people from using real google phones over a certain age where they cannot upgrade the OS anymore.
I felt for a long time, "trusted computing" is such a doublespeak term. It gets avg ppl to think "Oh ofc i want to trust my device! Who wouldn't want that?"
Ofc what it really does, is gives BigTech the final control over everybody's dev.
It started out promising. Keep malicious things from changing your firmware or disk without permission. But the tools were never open enough to let you do it. So it only became trusted for those who paid into it.