The petition got deleted for some reason, and most likely ignored by Valve. As Luki said, they began developing a program so bots and people would be able to have an emulated steam app in their PCs.
None of the staff bought a phone for this, geel used the app with the bots and everything is fine.
Also, if I recall correctly, this won't be as bad as we thought if there's something that goes in a certain way. I don't remember what it exactly was, but geel said so.