I wish google would stop being evil
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
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Google has no incentive to walk back, especially given what they saw Apple has been able to get away with on their end. And as we've seen with AOSP publishing delays, device tree information restrictions, locked bootloaders, they are making it increasingly hard for Android to be an OS that can be forked and installed on devices, let alone for you to install your own software.
The community ought to prepare for the realities of this, and put mitigation measures in place. Valve saw the similar direction Windows is going years ago, and made the same decision: GNU/Linux is the next best truly open/free-as-in-freedom experience, and we should all aim to use and improve that ecosystem on smaller form factors. Waydroid/ATL can act as temporary bridges for both developers and users alike while native binaries are ported.
If you're making new apps, target to develop with qt/qml + rust so it can run on the only GNU/Linux equivalent of Android WearOS, AsteroidOS. This let's you deploy one codebase on watches, phones, tablets, and computers screen sizes with a convergent design.
Wonder if their is a coop with postmarket for example or a merge between graphene and postmarket efforts.
Google literally holds all the cards and has what, only Europe to worry about in terms of regulatory backlash.
Gosh I hope the non-Android fork open source OSs get some money from phone makers because they will definitely have a market when it becomes truly viable.
You can write the EU to urge them to act. They are monitoring the situation. That we have to say pretty please to a huge soulless corporation based in a hostile, fascist nation to not take our freedom away is so fucked up.
At this point steamos/linux ported to phones and waydroid for a compatibility layer is our only hope
PostmarketOS likes to talk to you
Yeah that would be ideal but you know manufacturers they want a company attached to it just like how Linux distros are right there but it took steam deck for them to show interest.