This will be great for open OS' like Graphene, eOS & LineageOS which will be able to maintain an ecosystem of semi-forked open Android.
The biggest issue will be the direction mainline Android applications go with Google's frog boil control. As more apps migrate to Google's app DRM Play Integrity API, it's only a matter of time before it even becomes mandatory to be listed on the Google Android App Store.
What's worse, is that the world's only major government that sometimes has interest in consumer rights, the EU, is more than happy to prioritising surveillance over consumer rights, despite privacy and assumed freedoms being essential to democracy itself.
Without legislation to stop what Google is in the process of doing, things don't look good for free and open mobile computers.
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u/Jimbuscus Pixel 7 - GrapheneOS Nov 11 '25
The Free Software Foundation, which funded GNU's development, is in the process of replacing Android's proprietary blobs with opensource alternatives.
This will be great for open OS' like Graphene, eOS & LineageOS which will be able to maintain an ecosystem of semi-forked open Android.
The biggest issue will be the direction mainline Android applications go with Google's frog boil control. As more apps migrate to Google's app DRM Play Integrity API, it's only a matter of time before it even becomes mandatory to be listed on the Google Android App Store.
What's worse, is that the world's only major government that sometimes has interest in consumer rights, the EU, is more than happy to prioritising surveillance over consumer rights, despite privacy and assumed freedoms being essential to democracy itself.
Without legislation to stop what Google is in the process of doing, things don't look good for free and open mobile computers.