But anyway, they’re still only gonna run on Pixel phones (and Motorola soon, apparently).
It’s one thing to say “my custom firmware does X, Y, Z,” but if you can’t install it on any Android phone… I think it’s time we stop treating Android like some kind of bastion of freedom or privacy. Android maintainers and custom firmware developers have talked about a unified base for over a decade and it still hasn’t happened yet. If you buy a phone in certain regions (like the US, China, and other limited countries) you can’t just install whatever you want. The goal has always been to make phones more like computers, where you can “just install Linux” if you don’t like Windows. (Well, not the iPhone, that’s always been locked down.) But it’s never been true of Android.
The goal is open hardware you can install anything on. Even a modified version of iOS, if someone’s got the balls to host it. Kind of like a hackintosh, but a phone version. Like if you had a PC that had similar specs to an Intel Mac, you could run Mac OS on it (as long as that version of Mac OS supported the Mac you were similar to) fairly easily. We need that for phones. Maybe someday.
Looks like the normal font to me. ;)
But anyway, they’re still only gonna run on Pixel phones (and Motorola soon, apparently).
It’s one thing to say “my custom firmware does X, Y, Z,” but if you can’t install it on any Android phone… I think it’s time we stop treating Android like some kind of bastion of freedom or privacy. Android maintainers and custom firmware developers have talked about a unified base for over a decade and it still hasn’t happened yet. If you buy a phone in certain regions (like the US, China, and other limited countries) you can’t just install whatever you want. The goal has always been to make phones more like computers, where you can “just install Linux” if you don’t like Windows. (Well, not the iPhone, that’s always been locked down.) But it’s never been true of Android.
The goal is open hardware you can install anything on. Even a modified version of iOS, if someone’s got the balls to host it. Kind of like a hackintosh, but a phone version. Like if you had a PC that had similar specs to an Intel Mac, you could run Mac OS on it (as long as that version of Mac OS supported the Mac you were similar to) fairly easily. We need that for phones. Maybe someday.
I mean this is a beautiful dream but currently just a dream