The beauty of open source is that Google can’t take it back. The worst they can do is close source their own future development. Meanwhile, the community can fork the last open source release of AOSP. Look at what open source devs did with Audacity, for example.
The real fly in the ointment here is Google already did with device trees and driver binaries for Pixel phones; no longer sharing these with AOSP will have a very chilling effect on custom ROM developers who must now reverse engineer needed configs and drivers.
And before you know it, Android will no longer be open source for “security” reasons.
I have absolutely zore faith AOSP is long for this world. The GrapheneOS folks need to find a way off yesterday
The beauty of open source is that Google can’t take it back. The worst they can do is close source their own future development. Meanwhile, the community can fork the last open source release of AOSP. Look at what open source devs did with Audacity, for example.
The real fly in the ointment here is Google already did with device trees and driver binaries for Pixel phones; no longer sharing these with AOSP will have a very chilling effect on custom ROM developers who must now reverse engineer needed configs and drivers.
Just like Apple, there will be no way to run apps like ICEBlock. Or anything else they don’t want you to run.
It’s time to make Pine rich.
You can currently sideload a bit on iOS, but it’s a massive pain
Can you sideload ICEBlock?
If they upload the .ipa file, yes