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Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS (www.gsmarena.com)
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[–] 71 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I'm still looking for a solution after https://keepandroidopen.org/

About 50% of my apps are from F-Droid (the others are specific local apps and especially bank apps, which is difficult ...)

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

    Will this affect graphene os?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    if developers stop developing apps, that will affect GrapheneOS, yes

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think apps will still be developed however they will reach only the custom ROM audience which I expect will grow massively.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I think the second part is correct, but the first one is not because lots of developers don't use a custom ROM, and neither does a large part of their intended audience. Sadly, many people are not ready to give up the bank's app, perhaps literally cannot give up the government app, but also hardware compatibility with most phones is not there, because of missing drivers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    yeah i need my banking, only thing stopping me from using a non-googled phone. everything else can fuck off

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    i dont think you need google play services for banking.
    furthermore, i disabled play services. i dont need it for 99% of apps.
    sometimes theres one cool heavily proprietary app that forces you to use it. sucks. and i just gotta uninstall it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    yes you do. my bank doesnt work without google play services

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure this is wrong. Like obviously it's a bad thing that they are making it harder to distribute apps through 3rd parties but they aren't stopping you from sideloading unsigned apps. They are introducing an additional step to unlock your phone to allow unsigned apps. Yes it is annoying and no I do not agree with what they are doing. But they are not removing unsigned app support from all android devices.

    The new step will be deciding how long you wish to allow unsigned apps to be installable on your device (either 7 days or indefinitely) and then it requires you to wait 24 hours before you can start to install apps without Google developer signing.

    These rules do suck, and it is a bad thing, but lying or exaggerating what is happening will not make them reverse course. It only justifies them when they say "it's not that bad and it's for your protection."

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