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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

OpenHarmony exists too you know & it's being actively maintained. That or We maintain AOSP ourselves.

Reminder OpenHarmony is the AOSP equivalent to HarmonyOS & is maintained by the OpenAtom foundation

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

ok. but isn't HarmonyOS as a whole a lot younger? why is it a better choice?

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's not being railroaded by it's owner unlike Android

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

we have platforms like that already. several mobile linux distributions, sailfish, whatever. what is the advantage of harmony os? android (as in AOSP) is much more mature all around, the bad parts need to be patched out but then its pretty good. why choose harmony os and leave behind android instead?

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my god this person. If google completely closed up Android, then you'd need a mobile friendly OS alternative. I'm fine with linux, but it's gonna take a while to catch up. So meanwhile....... get it ?

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh my god this person

oh my god! calm down, maybe look at who other people agree with more in this thread.

If google completely closed up Android

that's not possible, because the source code is already publicly available. they can not delete it from the hard drives of custom rom developers.

However if google finished closing up AOSP, what that would mean is no more future development coming from google. that's the same with other projects, including harmony: google does not submit patches there either.

you still did not answer how is harmony os a better option than AOSP