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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe, maybe not. Periods of hardware and software lockdown have ended before.

A hard fork off of Android seems like the easier path to me if it doesn't. Sure, they can break compatibility, but it will take a while for that to catch up with us, and in the meanwhile we can use apps and infrastructure that already exists. And Fairphone, at the very least, seems likely to continue being receptive to whatever ROM you want.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree, but those options are also unlikely in the long term. I'm just being positive and hoping for a life without Google.

I was thinking, Linux only really worked because companies profit from it and therefore support it. If it were just for desktop users it would have never been more than a programmer hobby. I don't see phones benefiting more than the end user, and without a lot of profit on that I don't see that working. So I think the future is dark.

But I'll still invest on it and pretend I live in an ideal world and pretend it's possible. It's not zero percent chance I hope...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

I'm using AOSP, which is kind of Google-derivative, but I've gotten off of everything else. Geopolitics seems like it will get in the way of overbearing US monopolies pretty soon here, too.