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> What about multiple authorities, but not random individual developers? That's basically how it works with e.g. game stores on PC (though Steam is certainly the largest), or package repositories on Linux.

> Like you, I like being able to trust an authority to vet the software I install rather than having to judge the trustworthiness of each individual developer, but I'm not a fan of there only being one authority by design (as it is on e.g. iOS).

You can already do this on Android though. Samsung offers an individual app store for it's phones, and FDroid works on all phones.