What a weird evil slow burn Google is doing. AOSP used to be an entire open phone operating system for the most part, (aside from binary driver blobs and some DRM stuff) but with each passing year, they close-source everything. It used to be a big proud point Android users celebrated, “oh well I can go read my source code, unlike iOS!” Annnnd…nope.
I want a new mobile OS to replace the shit sandwich of Gappleoogle.
What a weird evil slow burn Google is doing. AOSP used to be an entire open phone operating system for the most part, (aside from binary driver blobs and some DRM stuff) but with each passing year, they close-source everything. It used to be a big proud point Android users celebrated, “oh well I can go read my source code, unlike iOS!” Annnnd…nope.
I want a new mobile OS to replace the shit sandwich of Gappleoogle.
LineageOS is mostly AOSP and little Google stuff, which anyway you can remove without breaking the OS.
You can use an Android phone without reliance on Google, but it’s quite some effort and possibly invalidates warranty.