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The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software (hackaday.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

why do we need a new one? can't android be salvaged? lots of things have been solved already in a way that makes a relatively good foundation.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    All the non-Google entities that build stuff on Android need to start banding together instead of siloing themselves. If AOSP is being closed, they need to create a non-profit replacement for it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can't use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.

    Then I guess it's possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can't say I'm using Android for the great UX - I'm using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can't use them on Android any more I'm switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.

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