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F-Droid
@fdroidorg@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.

The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?

Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?

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Nazo
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@fdroidorg I think they definitely have begun to realize that they sort of painted themselves into a corner by giving us something so open. They want to be like Apple and make money hand over fist locking people into a platform -- and honestly, some of what Gapps is doing these days and how they're doing stuff exclusive to the most recent Pixels only is really starting to get there. I'm convinced Google will legitimately lock Android down soon and I don't think third parties are ready for this.
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F-Droid
@fdroidorg@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"Hey Google, what is Android?"

* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP"
* "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity"
* "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones"
* "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"

And today, we discover, "Android is... not system-images;android-36;default" per https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/432143095

The F in #FDroid stands for "freedom", but there's no "F" in Android... nor any promises.

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Jawsh
@jawsh@207.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@fdroidorg I just wish my Pixel 8 had a mainlined Linux kernel so I could run @mobian or @postmarketOS on it. I've got a Poco X3 NFC running PostmarketOS and I have found alternatives for just about everything. The only thing holding me back is the fact that it doesn't have all the needed US bands.
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nth_project
@nth_project@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@fdroidorg Thanks for these posts—I think this sentiment is really important to get out there. However, me and many others really lack the android dev experience to understand all the details of how android is shrinking over time. Two questions:

- Can someone break this down for a technical non-dev?
- Can we get more advocacy on this from experts in an easy to understand way? I'm in no position to do so atm, but I think it needs to be done.

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traecer
@traecer@techhub.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@fdroidorg "how to take Android private without actually taking it private"
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