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Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android
(www.phonearena.com)
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.
Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn't Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.
de-Googled android sounds even better. The story is cooler than the title!
I mean they just replace Google with their own Chinese data-mining services so, no, not cool.
No no no, it's not Chinese data mining.
it's just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.
Exactly what happened with Indonesian release of Huawei.
Also, more ads everywhere. Even your lock screen.
I like your spirit, but I don't think a Chinese equivalent to Google Play Services would be more desirable
All I want is unified push really. Then you just choose your server or host your own.
Or just Linux. Like furios or phosh, etc.
I wish more apps supported unified push!
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick.”
—Mikhail Bakunin
They are already degoogled for the Chinese market. What the Chinese Android variants to not have is a shared replacement for Play Services and a shared app store because everyone is doing their own thing for maps API, payment, ...
a duopoly is better than a monopoly but 3 platforms would be better
This is why my next GPU its gotta be Intel
Just read for a second about intel's history on anti competition practices eg they would ban stores from carrying out amd cpus in my country in Europe
Oh yeah, I'm not saying they're the good guys at all. But we need a 3rd player on the GPU market.
I run that already with CalyxOS. I dig it.
It also says:
So, it's not clear yet.
I thought android in China was already de-googled
Some Chinese phone release outside China also began to de-googled as well. At least that's the case for Huawei in Indonesia.
So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just skinned AOSP?
HarmonyOS is not AOSP anymore. It does not run Android apps anymore.
This was a transitional stage, HarmonyOS Next is running a fully different kernel and runtime
Well there's that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that with stuff like this, the companies have lied before. I'll believe it when I see it.
The US/China decoupling is happening everywhere.
I live in Asia. I'm European and meet a lot of Chinese tourists. Trying to find a common ground with digital services we both use is impractical to the point where we often can't connect online.
The front line is everywhere, there be no shelter here.
They got you searching for the thin line between entertainment and war.
Waydroid is pretty nice, integrating the Android apps as regular apps in the Linux UI.
Waydroid is very close to greatness. My major hope there is Valve contributions to Waydroid for probable Steam Deck integration will make it incredibly seamless. There’s also the Android Translation Layer being developed
https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer
Am I the only one who never got Waydroid to run even basic apps..?
de-googled Android you say?
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Too bad that what you want in a Google-free Android distro isn't what the manufacturers want.
KDE connect is already pretty sweet
What about /e/OS?
Haven't tried it