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How screwed are retro handheld devices like Metroid and Odin devices with Googles dumb decision to blacklist good 3rd party developers? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Do you think these devices will continue to function?

Will the handheld market need to degoogle and adopt Linux as the OS?

Would it be smart to even consider purchasing any of them right now with the chance of them not functioning as expected in the near future?

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

i really worry about this...

similar with fdroid & Foss app store developers. also, different but similar worries, 3rd party android roms like Graphene OS....

i really hope a fully open source mobile device hardware & software stack's supply chain & ecosystem can evolve to fill our needs.... (where the community efforts are unified enough to self sustain, and where novice users can have confidence in a default choice before being forced diving deeper into niche projects)

pie in the sky.... hopefully not a pipe dream.... not forever at least

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