▲ 869 ▼ Because Google cares about us (lemmy.world) submitted 3 weeks ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Will graphene get fucked by this too? My plan was to switch over in September but I'm not sure if the changes mean graphene will be made useless. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] illi@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child) My understanding is that no... not yet anyway. Phones with GrapheneOS are not "verified" Android so you can proceed to install whatever. There will b .indirect damage with some devs likely stopping development as their userbase might get smaller still - if they refuse registering with Google. And I guess there is a future when Google will start tightening the noose on Android itself, which will likely make alternate Android OSs harder to develop (though I know nothing about these things, I sense this is an option down the line). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago The threat is also from empowering shitheels like VW who deliberately detect gOS and break their apps. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] illi@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child) My understanding is that no... not yet anyway. Phones with GrapheneOS are not "verified" Android so you can proceed to install whatever. There will b .indirect damage with some devs likely stopping development as their userbase might get smaller still - if they refuse registering with Google. And I guess there is a future when Google will start tightening the noose on Android itself, which will likely make alternate Android OSs harder to develop (though I know nothing about these things, I sense this is an option down the line). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago The threat is also from empowering shitheels like VW who deliberately detect gOS and break their apps. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago The threat is also from empowering shitheels like VW who deliberately detect gOS and break their apps. permalink fedilink source parent
