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Help me understand what this means to e.g. GrapheneOS, please. Will it be able to exist and just have to wait longer for updates or will it be in real jeopardy?
by llarsson 1y ago
Help me understand what this means to e.g. GrapheneOS, please. Will it be able to exist and just have to wait longer for updates or will it be in real jeopardy?
- lunar_rover 1y agoPotentially longer gaps between major updates, since they can no longer follow upstream closely. However, Google might have planned to slowly make Android proprietary, which means death to 3rd party forks.
- pas 1y agoMost of those forks twiddle a lot of low-level knobs, and if Google does not want to support those then the forks will have a hard time anyway. The big problem is that aaaaaalll these forks are still just a tiny tiny tiny drop in the bug mobile phone OS bucket. If the forks want to be sustainable they need to cater to the market a bit. (Of course that's much harder said than done, but we see - for example with Nothing Tech - that there are new successful upstarts from time to time.)
- achierius 1y agoDiscussion on the GrapheneOS forum: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21231-google-will-develop-the-android-os-fully-in-private https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21231-google-will-develop-t...
- Happily2020 1y agohttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114230629374651118 https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114230629374651118 > not much will change overall. It's a major step in the wrong direction but without a large direct impact on us