Your phone is about to stop being yours

你的手机即将不再属于你

Your phone is about to stop being yours. 126 days until lockdown. Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID. Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out. 你的手机即将不再属于你。距离封锁还有 126 天。从 2026 年 9 月开始，谷歌将强制推送一次静默更新，届时所有未在谷歌注册、未签署合同、未缴费并提交政府颁发身份证件的开发者所开发的 Android 应用都将被拦截。全球范围内的每一款应用和每一台设备都将受到影响，且无法选择退出。

What Google is doing

谷歌正在做什么

In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their software. 2025 年 8 月，谷歌宣布了一项新规定：从 2026 年 9 月起，所有 Android 应用开发者在软件安装到任何设备之前，必须先在谷歌进行集中注册。这不仅限于 Play 商店的应用，而是涵盖所有应用。包括朋友间分享的应用、通过 F-Droid 分发的应用，以及爱好者为个人使用而构建的应用。独立开发者、教会、社区团体以及业余爱好者都将被剥夺开发和分发软件的能力。

Registration requires: Paying a fee to Google, Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions, Surrendering your government-issued identification, Providing evidence of your private signing key, Listing all current and all future application identifiers. If a developer does not comply, their apps get silently blocked on every Android device worldwide. 注册要求包括：向谷歌支付费用、同意谷歌的服务条款、提交政府颁发的身份证件、提供私钥证明、列出所有当前及未来的应用标识符。如果开发者不遵守规定，他们的应用将在全球所有 Android 设备上被静默拦截。

Who this hurts

这会伤害谁

You: You bought an Android phone because Google told you it was open. You could install what you wanted, and that was the deal. Google is now rewriting that deal, retroactively, on hardware you already own. After the update lands, you can only run software that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for. 你： 你购买 Android 手机是因为谷歌宣称它是开放的。你可以安装任何你想要的软件，这就是当初的约定。现在，谷歌正在你已经拥有的硬件上追溯性地重写这一约定。更新落地后，你只能运行谷歌预先批准的软件。在你的手机上——那是你花钱购买的个人财产。

Independent developers: A teenager’s first app, a volunteer’s privacy tool, or a company’s confidential internal beta. It doesn’t matter. After September 2026, none of these can be installed without Google’s blessing. F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, has called this an “existential” threat. Cory Doctorow calls it “Darth Android”. 独立开发者： 无论是青少年的第一个应用、志愿者的隐私工具，还是公司的机密内部测试版，都无关紧要。2026 年 9 月之后，没有谷歌的许可，这些应用都无法安装。拥有数千款自由开源 Android 应用的 F-Droid 将此称为“生存”威胁。Cory Doctorow 将其称为“黑武士 Android”（Darth Android）。

Governments & civil society: Google has a documented track record of complying when authoritarian regimes demand app removals. With this program, the software that runs your country’s institutions will exist at the pleasure of a single unaccountable foreign corporation. The EFF calls app gatekeeping “an ever-expanding pathway to internet censorship.” 政府与公民社会： 谷歌有在威权政权要求下删除应用的记录。通过这一计划，运行你所在国家机构的软件将完全取决于一家不受监管的外国公司的意愿。电子前哨基金会（EFF）称这种应用准入控制是“通往互联网审查的不断扩张的路径”。

Google’s “escape hatch” is a trap door

谷歌的“逃生舱”其实是陷阱

Google says “power users” can “still install” unverified apps. Here’s what that actually looks like: Delve into System Settings, find Developer Options, tap the build number seven times to enable Developer Mode, dismiss scare screens about coercion, enter your PIN, restart the device, wait 24 hours, come back, dismiss more scare screens, pick “allow temporarily” (7 days) or “allow indefinitely”, confirm, again, that you understand “the risks”. 谷歌声称“高级用户”仍然可以“安装”未经验证的应用。实际操作流程如下：进入系统设置，找到开发者选项，连续点击版本号七次以启用开发者模式，忽略关于强制性的警告界面，输入 PIN 码，重启设备，等待 24 小时，回来后再次忽略警告界面，选择“临时允许”（7 天）或“永久允许”，再次确认你理解“风险”。

Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own. Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed. And as of today, it hasn’t shipped in any beta, preview, or canary build. It exists only as a blog post and some mockups. 九个步骤。强制 24 小时的冷静期。仅仅是为了在你拥有的设备上安装软件。更糟糕的是：这个流程完全通过 Google Play 服务运行，而不是 Android 操作系统本身。谷歌可以随时更改、收紧或终止它，无需操作系统更新，也无需用户同意。截至今日，该功能尚未在任何测试版、预览版或 Canary 构建版本中发布。它目前仅存在于一篇博客文章和一些设计草图中。

This is bigger than Android

这不仅仅是 Android 的问题

If Google can retroactively lock down billions of devices that were sold as open platforms, every hardware manufacturer on the planet is watching. The principle being established: the company that made your device gets to decide, after you’ve bought it, what software you’re allowed to run. 如果谷歌可以追溯性地锁定数十亿作为开放平台售出的设备，全球所有的硬件制造商都在注视着。这一原则正在确立：制造你设备的公司，在你购买之后，有权决定你被允许运行什么软件。

In software, this is called a “rug pull”; but at least you could always install competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a single unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist. 在软件领域，这被称为“撤地毯”（rug pull，指突然撤走支持）；但至少你总是可以安装竞争软件。而在硬件领域，这是一个既成事实，它剥夺了你的自主权，使你在一个不受监管的守门人和被判垄断者的心血来潮面前变得无能为力。

Android’s openness was never just a feature. It was the promise that distinguished it from iPhone. Millions chose Android for exactly that reason. Google is now revoking that promise unilaterally, on devices already in people’s pockets, because they’ve decided they have enough market dominance and regulatory capture to get away with it. Android 的开放性从来不仅仅是一个功能。它是区别于 iPhone 的承诺。数以百万计的用户正是因为这个原因选择了 Android。谷歌现在正单方面撤销这一承诺，针对人们口袋里已经拥有的设备，因为他们认为自己拥有足够的市场主导地位和监管俘获能力，足以逃脱惩罚。

Ars Technica: “Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy.” Ars Technica 评论道：“谷歌对苹果的嫉妒威胁着要拆解 Android 的开放遗产。”