It’s the apps that use the google stuff, so certain banking, governement, and as I recently found out, dating apps (bumble) will simply not work. This is also the reason why google pay and most payment apps won’t work https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/getting-started/#calyxos-limitations---calyxos-versus-stock-android
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It’s a google API that apps can use to check if they’re running on a verified system, and unless google graciously allows, alternative OSs will always fail the check, which can make some apps unusable. For example many banking apps do this in the name of security.


Technically, probably yes, one way or another…