It only makes sense up until they close it off truly and we lose the ability to trust our devices because we know Google is inherently untrustworthy and can't be trusted to act without supervision.

In our view, however, the premium positioning of the new Googlebook models is problematic. While you get good hardware, prices start at around €1,200, and for that price the new Googlebook operating system is very limited. There are plenty of Windows or macOS alternatives (such as the MacBook Air) that also let you use all the Google apps while providing a full-fledged operating system.

Indeed.

I'm telling you, Android is in fact not a dead platform. While the recent chances have been unfortunate, the community around around is still quite strong. Android still has the advantage of being far more mature than anything else due to it having years worth of research and development put into it. No matter what Google does the community will continue to build cool things. Even with delayed releases and a increasing closed Google ecosystem it still makes far more sense to use something that is well developed rather than starting from scratch. Linux on mobile is largely a pipe dream as a lot of the mobile stuff is just ports of desktop software. Linux desktops have far weaker security and privacy protections are have the issue of carrying over a significant amount of technical dept.

Don't worry, they are getting rid of android auto so you have to pay for a subscription on your car if you want to use your subscription based services

Yes

At this point, Android is the scam.

So how is Google planning on fucking us now?

Got I hate google injecting itself everywhere.
I don't need you

I would argue that a conservative (few new features, focus on security and stability) Android fork would be possible to maintain.

How about they redesign Android Auto wireless so that I'm not burning 20% of my battery on my work commute alone?

I love forced illiteracy. Instead of educating people (whether about scams, using computers, or anything), let's just make everything "easy".

I'm telling you, Android is dead as a platform. Google is going to eventually close source AOSP and pay a fine for it, or something like that, and then Android will no longer be an open source project. Because of this, I am moving to NuraEco (formerly PostMarketOS) for my next phone.

Ugh "Private AI Compute" isn't private. It sends your conversations to Google's servers for processing. They say it's encrypted and not even they can read it, but how does the AI model know it's a scam if the AI model can't read it? Is it encrypted at rest but decrypted on Google's servers every time you receive a message? That's not private. You have to trust Google not to read it, and you can't trust Google anymore.

I think it's more likely that the server buffers it. They have to be aware that any client hack could otherwise easily see them ahead of time. This also explains the size limit, since it'll have to sit on facebooks servers for a while.

Sounds like it gets sent to the recipients phones and only displayed at the scheduled time

F-droid has tons of vibcoded apps on their main repository. F-droid has an AI chat category, most of the included apps require connections to proprietary services without proper anti-feature disclosure.

F-droid is better in so many ways and I use it. But it alone not the solution to the problem of slopware on phones.

Degoogled ROM + F-Droid. Because fuck Google and their Play.

Great news, but minus a lot of points for using Twatter.

But they love slop loading

Its installing apps on the device you own. Don't fall for the terminology being used by those taking away your freedom.

These apps are still required to comply with Google Play’s existing policies but allow users to experiment more directly with building apps for Android.

Gawd, I hate this timeline.

Google blocks/cripples the ability to "sideload" apps, but I'm free to have AI generate some slop app, as long as it fits with Googles vision of what I'm allowed to do with my device and I'm not allowed to share it.

Good times /s

maybe i missed it but i don't see a requirement on the apps being vibe coded. sure they are marketing it as that but the end result is a binary either way. if this really is for any app and not reliant on a built-in ai then this is kind of cool. especially as they say you will be abke to.share it with friends/family in the future

to be clear - free sideloading is the best solution.

And that's the alternative they give to having to pay a fortune and dox yourself in order to upload an app to the Play Store? Having to rely on Gemini?

But they hate side loading

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