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Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/

This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.

Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.

Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.

#FuckGoogle #Android #FOSS #Mobile

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

What's the answer?

@pine64 had a fucking chance to bring a Linux phone, and left us with absolute shit, broken/crippled hardware, no actual software, and sucked the oxygen out of the room.

That was the chance. They blew it, and fucked the community in the process.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Nov 7

@crankylinuxuser we had other chances, and we will have more.

There was Maemo on N900 and N9, there was (and still is I think) SailfishOS, Librem does its thing. There are Android derivatives like GrapheneOS.

There were others. But we're at the point now that it's "locked in with Apple", "soon to be locked in with google", and.... nothing.

Until something takes hold, its going to be a closed source hellscape bumpy ride.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@crankylinuxuser does that mean we should not push back against Google's shenanigans here?