Post #2428590

2025-12-12 08:15 UTC

@spipau@mastodon.social At any point, Google can decide to stop updating AOSP. Stop publishing security patches and new major updates. Of course you can still use the old code that's already published today, but it will be a security nightmare in just a few months and will stop being able to run new apps in 3-5 years. @tbernard@mastodon.social

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@spipau@mastodon.social 2025-12-12 10:47

@larma@mastodon.social @tbernard@mastodon.social very valid and true for any open source project. If you'd stop working on microg then the same would happen to my Murena phone - thank you very much BTW, an awesome piece of work and I am one of your donors 🙏❤️ Seems like Google gets more and more afraid of our liberation movement, which should encourage us to continue. Europe and the rest of the world might have to fork Android and continue without Google, although this would be a tremendous effort! 😅

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@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org 2025-12-12 11:29

@larma@mastodon.social @spipau@mastodon.social @tbernard@mastodon.social yup recently android is becoming more like closed source. Their development is behind closed door. And they are planning to remove features like side loading (installing apks). Which is really bad if you think about it, you do not own anymore your own mobile phone.

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@rangelovd@mastodon.ml 2025-12-12 12:28

@larma@mastodon.social @spipau@mastodon.social @tbernard@mastodon.social while I agree with most of what you say‚ "will stop being able to run new apps in 3-5 years" is very false‚ typing this from 8yo phone.

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