I get that stockholders love Sundar Pichai, but under his leadership all I’ve seen him do is kill the Android community and now he’s about to kill the ecosystem too. He’s so shortsighted in his approach that it hurts.
That’s modern CEOs in a nutshell. Damage the company long term to get those good short term returns for shareholders.
Wonder how it will affect custom Rom developement like GrapheneOS.
We already had to wait until the stable tags to get the vast majority of the source code, so not much will change overall. It’s a major step in the wrong direction but without a large direct impact on us. It only reinforces that we need to obtain partner access via an OEM we can work with to help improve their platform security while also being able to port our changes earlier.
Isn’t Graphene Lineage OS based?
Well, this is exactly the kind of question one asks if one wants to get lectured about multiple ways they’re wrong by the graphene developers.
In other words, no. It isn’t :)
Probably the beginning of the end for that open source project.
Beginning of the end?
They killed off AOSP apps and replaced then with proprietary ones. Almost the latest Android features are proprietary and Google tied.
