Android
DROID DOES
Welcome to the Android community on Lemmy. Here you can participate in amazing discussions and events relating to all things Android.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
1. All posts must be relevant to Android devices/operating system.
2. Posts cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
3. No spam, self promotion, or upvote farming. Sources engaging in these behavior will be added to the Blacklist.
4. Non-whitelisted bots will be banned.
5. Engage respectfully: Harassment, flamebaiting, bad faith engagement, or agenda posting will result in your posts being removed. Excessive violations will result in temporary or permanent ban, depending on severity.
6. Memes are not allowed to be posts, but are allowed in the comments.
7. Posts from clickbait sources are heavily discouraged. Please de-clickbait titles if it needs to be submitted.
8. Submission statements of any length composed of your own thoughts inside the post text field are mandatory for any microblog posts, and are optional but recommended for article/image/video posts.
Community Resources:
view the rest of the comments
Mentioning Apple just seems redundant? iPhones don’t have custom firmware, at least not current ones. I think you could install Android on a 3GS, but it wouldn’t be current.
No one’s buying an iPhone to unlock the bootloader, they’re doing it because it’s what others have, they use other Apple tech, or they want a decade of updates (that lose features).
They don't have custom firmware because it's locked down, not because of their product line's existence.
If iPhones were as easy to mod as Pixels, then the sheer amount of potential users would probably mean a custom firmware would be swiftly developed.
So yeah, we should name and shame them, even if Apple has no interest in opening the gates.
iOS itself is closed source so unlockable bootloader wouldn't make modding it much easier. Custom Android roms are based on AOSP which is easy to modify and can be used with existing properietary drivers extracted from official firmware. Alternative OSes for Android phones exist but their users are tiny minority even in custom ROM community. Porting a Linux-based OS to an iPhone and making it fully functional would be a humongous task.
Wouldn't both the Asahi Linux project and the prior examples of android managing to be ran on iPhone 5 models and below be solid examples to the contrary?
Asahi only really supports M1 and M2 macs, only even for them it's not 100% support. Though I guess it's comparable to how postmarketos / Ubuntu touch and other such Linux OSes work on Android devices.
i think there are some jailbreaks for the iphone and not the ios but a similar problem since they will stop being manifactured eventually.
Really hard not impossible. Even then we're decades away from even starting anything like that. Last jailbreak for ios was in ios 17 i believe? iOS is at 26 rn it did switch from 18 to 26 tho. Apple literally hired all the jailbreak devs to patch the exploits. There aren't even exploits that would help you personalize the phone and have better privacy since ios 18 and maybe a bit of early versions of 26. That's why I changed my phone when I messed up my password and had to update it.
Also the android on early iphones doesn't even work fully, it's a start yes but yea. And apple just also killed hackingtosh (mac in non apple machines) when they stopped to support intel. They could reverse ingenier the arm chip or whatevs, asahi has already done some reverse engeniering in the Apple m1 chip.
I don't think you have to jailbreak mac? idk i've never used one. So ye if we were to get custom stuff for ios it would take a lot years to even get a jailbreak and more years to get anything else and for that point almost anyone would be using that version of ios since you can't "downgrade".