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by inigyou 1 hour ago
I think there's a fee and also a long list of requirements - such as you must not sell any phone without Google Play Store.
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>I think there's a fee

Seems to be only in the EU (because they're being forced to), and some other sources say google is offsetting the fee through revenue sharing back to the OEMs. In any case the original claim of "the purpose of remote attestation is to force people to buy devices that pay Google license fees" is questionable given that google had to be forced into charging money for it.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...