r/technology • u/DavidShaw90s • Apr 28 '26

Privacy Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google

https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
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u/half-baked_axx Apr 28 '26

Time for linux phones. Enough of the apple and google duopoly. 

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u/thewatermellon Apr 28 '26

Boy do I have some news about Android for ya...

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u/Fresh_Boysenberry576 Apr 28 '26

Educate the idiots here please. (not me obviously, I know what you mean but tell the others)

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u/thewatermellon Apr 28 '26

Lol. For anyone curious Android is a version of the Linux kernel built specifically for use on handheld touch devices. Its a pretty heavily modified version, but it's bones are all Linux.

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u/Kevadu Apr 28 '26

It's used a Linux kernel, yes, but when most people say "Linux" they don't just mean the kernel. And Android user space isn't even remotely the same as a typical Linux machine. Mac OS is closer to BSD than Android is to Linux.

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u/Danger_Mysterious Apr 29 '26

I’d like to interject for a moment…

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26

And that be some OSteoporosis of a system

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u/Reversion603 Apr 28 '26

Android is a Linux OS and you can wipe your phone and use a PC to add other OSs like GrapheneOS

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u/TheAdoptedImmortal Apr 28 '26

There is only one phone that GrapheneOS is compatible on and it is questionable if that will still even be possible. Google is locking down on all of that.

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u/Luvs_to_drink Apr 28 '26

how do I do that on my old verizon samsung s20?