Google cracks down! APKs, ROMs, and Emulators banned — is Android freedom over?
m.economictimes.comIf I am already using a rooted but proprietary smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S23), downloading my apps from other sources than Google Play, how would Google be able to control what I do with it? If necessary, I could just stay on my current OS build as well. All in all, while politically and philosophically, Google’s new policy is bad, I don’t feel threatened by it with my current understand of the situation and technology…
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From what has been explained to me in some other posts, the issue is that most probably this will land on AOSP level from which all de-Googled androids fork. And with Linux phones not quite ready yet (I’m observing https://liberux.net/ though) that leaves us at their mercy
De-Googled forks of Android would have just reversed that limitation
Reversing malicious changes is an extra burden. Google has been slowly making everything worse for years and the forks haven’t been able to do much about it.
I’m guessing that maintaining such forks would be prohibitive. Especially since they do have resources to play cat and mice
But I don’t really know much about Android code, I’m just relying what I’ve heard
Looks nice, but I tried this sort of thing with the FXTec Pro, and never received it. After 4 years, they announced the last ones going out, and they apparently “lost” mine. Contacted them and their response was equivalent to a shrug. Next time I buy a product, it’s going to be verifiably on sale publicly.
It’s not crowd-funded anymore https://mastodon.social/@Liberux/115615514738875819
Hmmm. I’ll take a closer look.
LOL AdAway blocked liberux.net wtf😂 but thanks! The specs are surprisingly good too! :O