The attempt to restrict installing and development of applications, Android’s development now happening closed doors and now we’re getting updates only quarterly.
The way the stock Android experienced is quite bloated (when I got this one I was annoyed how power button just put me to Google Assistant than give me the power/restart options) and just my big dislike of Big Tech like Google just has made me run custom ROMs full time and I am worried in long term Android will become non-free eventually.
I feel the same. Have been using Android since version 2. I always preferred it to iOS because of it’s openness. Love F-Droid and Obtainium, but that ecosystem doesn’t have a bright future ahead once Google locks everything down. I’m looking into Linux phones. Gonna try postmarketOS on an old Pixel 3a soon. I don’t really see a future for an open Android as long as it’s controlled by Google.
I tried Lineage OS and it just breaks the data connection, once I restored factory OS, it works again.
I think some carriers are requiring a proprietary sim provisioning app (like the system app thingy you see when you scroll through the list of apps with “show system apps” enabled) thing that’s only available as proprietary code which Lineage doesn’t have.
Some carriers even have device whitelisting…
I think eventually carriers are gonna police every device that gets on their network and gonna start banning those running open souce OSes… so you’d end uo having to carry a locked-down phone, then use that as a hotspot for your open source phone that will probabbly be banned from the movile networks.
Whitelisting has reduced over the years though, in my experience.
The virtual carriers don’t care what you bring, so long as you’re on their plans.
Then there’s VMNOs that provide service on multiple carriers dynamically (like US Mobile), which means whitelisting by the main carriers (ATT/Verizon) is irrelevant.
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I feel the same. Have been using Android since version 2. I always preferred it to iOS because of it’s openness. Love F-Droid and Obtainium, but that ecosystem doesn’t have a bright future ahead once Google locks everything down. I’m looking into Linux phones. Gonna try postmarketOS on an old Pixel 3a soon. I don’t really see a future for an open Android as long as it’s controlled by Google.
Fairphone is looking to capitalize on Goole restricting AOSP support for Pixel phones. FP seems to be the way going forward.
As a side effect of Valve putting SteamOS on an VR headset with ARM mobile chipset, regular Linux on phones will likely also improve.
Eventually we’d have to run 2 phones.
I tried Lineage OS and it just breaks the data connection, once I restored factory OS, it works again.
I think some carriers are requiring a proprietary sim provisioning app (like the system app thingy you see when you scroll through the list of apps with “show system apps” enabled) thing that’s only available as proprietary code which Lineage doesn’t have.
Some carriers even have device whitelisting…
I think eventually carriers are gonna police every device that gets on their network and gonna start banning those running open souce OSes… so you’d end uo having to carry a locked-down phone, then use that as a hotspot for your open source phone that will probabbly be banned from the movile networks.
See Australia’s device whitelisting for example
US’s ATT also does that.
Whitelisting has reduced over the years though, in my experience.
The virtual carriers don’t care what you bring, so long as you’re on their plans.
Then there’s VMNOs that provide service on multiple carriers dynamically (like US Mobile), which means whitelisting by the main carriers (ATT/Verizon) is irrelevant.