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LineageOS 23 (lineageos.org)
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This reads like Google is ready to kill AOSP any day now. The future of android is looking bleak

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They haven't released Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP yet, even though it came out on Pixels at the beginning of September. Normally the gap is ~1-2 days.

    So yeah, a lot of custom rom devs are pretty bleak right now and honestly their concerns are pretty warranted given that it's Google we're talking about.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bleak, maybe, or maybe it will finally be the tipping point that starts pushing people away from the "Big Two" phone OS/platforms in pursuit of something truly open and free that isn't completely controlled by a privacy-invading tech giant.

    Windows 11 has apparently finally triggered the seemingly never-to-be "Year of Linux on the Desktop" as people refuse to submit to Windows 11's telemetry and other misfeatures and repurpose old (and new) machines with Linux instead of letting Microsoft decide they're obsolete.

    Maybe soon we'll have the year of the Linux phone too. Or at least be able to promote AOSP into a first-class citizen with its own phone support and designs and features and future, instead of simply being relegated to the role of a stagnant fork of de-Googled Android. It's time to go from soft fork to hard fork. Fuck Google, stop playing their games, and leave them behind.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The problem is though an OS is only as good as its apps, unless it has some killer feature that can make up for the lack of it. Linux worked because Wine and Proton made the huge back catalogue of windows games work on it, but that's a different use case from a mobile phone. Bank apps I particular are a bit pain point with how they keep using Google's features to only work on non modified official android versions. I'm sure you could get browsers and such to work otherwise, and some banks you might be able to use via a browser, but that's already a big hurdle to get over and sell to people as worth doing for all the other benefits.

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