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GrapheneOS accuses Google of gatekeeping Android 17 features and security fixes
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I will never understand this argument. Why in gods name would it be better for them to switch to a completely different OS like Linux and essentially have to destroy the entire ecosystem and start from scratch vs just hard forking current AOSP and maintaining it themselves?
Maintaining an entire OS doesn't sound like a sustainable amount of effort. Linux already has an ecosystem surrounding it that's not about to get crushed by a single corporation. The biggest issue is hardware support and security takes a lot more effort which goes against their main goal. Hopefully the rise of ARM laptops will help with the first point.
I agree, but to be fair, the current way involves completely obscured binary blobs for nearly every part of the hardware. Which is the main lock-in to be had on Android devices.
Even the pixel under GOS is using the proprietary device tree. There's no getting away from that unless you can RE the hardware and write your own drivers, which is impossibly hard for anything relatively current.
him no big brain why use many ideas and words?
i mean, i think there would be a lot of merit in maintaining a minimal linux platform that's basically just an android VM, that way it's basically infinitely easier to port to new devices and sandboxing becomes quite ironclad.