PostmarketOS can’t happen fast enough
LineageOS, & GrapheneOS hopefully will still be good for now
As a GrapheneOS user I’m with you on this. Hopefully this won’t negatively impact the development of GOS. I feel like it will though.
I wonder how this will affect Ubuntu Touch.
Boiling the frog, slowly… As more of these terrible decisions keep stifling Android up to a point where it becomes just a vessel to Google’s proprietary garbage (as it has been the case for many years already for a lot of things), it should be a wake up call for mobile Linux to keep improving and do it faster.
Here are the donation pages for your open-source alternatives:
https://opencollective.com/postmarketOS
https://liberapay.com/ubports-foundation/
https://liberapay.com/mobian/donate
https://e.foundation/donate-2/
https://shop.jolla.com/details/12596a34-597b-47d4-a502-c0ef15d2a4de/
I don’t know anything about Android AOSP, so I found this clarification important:
This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes, including when new full versions or maintenance releases are finished.
Yes, there will still be the aosp repository as open-source. It will have some lag, but still there. Thus said, Google has moved a lot of things into the Google Play services over the years (closed sources). So, who knows what’s next! Let’s praise that some companies inject money / devs into postmarketos!
With this happenning and apple getting extorted to accept third party apps it would be funny if they switch places
I trust them. They showed that they only care for their customers and not for maximizing profits.
/s right?
Google’s main goal is privacy and costumers happiness, Trump’s is democracy and Putin’s is peace.
Surprised pikachu face… they’ve been closing Android bit by bit every year, everybody knows their real intent is to turn it into closed source.
They are closing nothing here. It’s the equivalent of the developer doing local commits and delaying the public pull request.
It’s never been a better time to switch to !linuxphones@lemmy.ca
