Come on Linux phone devs. I'm rooting for ya.
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I thought about switching to Graphene a while back but asked a question about this in another thread. As tempting as it was, it seemed like the entire project hinged on Google updating AOSP. Stopping that to fuck over Graphene is exactly the type of piece of shit asshole behavior I would expect from Google.
is it possible or plausible for grapheneos to just simply fork android officially and break control from google?
It's entirely possible but would require a massive increase in volunteer manpower just to keep up.
In a way they already do. The trouble is that most big companies want the Google name and PlayStore.
Possible? Yes. Plausible? No, mainly due to the massive ecosystem that Google has built and the fact that maintaining compatibility with newer versions of Android without actually rebasing on top of that newer Android version would be an insane amount of work.
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