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Because Google cares about us (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I paid off my old phone early and got a grapheneOS phone ASAP just because of these motherfuckers.

Hell, I was firmly in the Android camp specifically because of the open source nature of their software. I never made the apps I wanted to make, but I like having the option to do so.

So you can go fuck yourself, google. Yes my phone is a Googlepixel 10 because they work best with grapheneOS. In a few years if I can I will get a Linux phone.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I'm really hoping we get a hard fork of AOSP that gets really popular.

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  • [+] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Would a hard fork not splinter the software support, killing the ecosystem? E.g. some devs only support that hard fork, others only the android compatible version.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I would be fine with that split. That would be an almost ideal situation even, and a thin compatibility layer like proton or even just an invisible container system similar to docker or flatpak could handle getting more of android onto the fork when it all stops being completely compatible. More effort but hopefully only needed short term.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Hardware compatibility is the major problem with alternative android. Basically I have to buy a 10 year old used phone as is. Would this only make this worse?

    Anyway, maybe AI code generation could actually help with things like hardware compatibility. Things like an AI agent could iterate on reading about a smartphone model and testing various configurations and patch drivers to make it compatible for many more devices. Not sure if AI is suitable for that, but you should be able to define stringent test cases for this.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They do make a small profit off those phones, while you could've simply hit them where it counts with ad-blocking and tracker protection.

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