It’s important to note that this is them moving in-development branches/features “behind closed doors”, not making Android closed source. Whenever a feature is ready they then merge it publicly. I know this community tends to be filled with purists, many of whom are well informed and reasoned, but I’m actually totally fine with this change. This kind of structure isn’t crazy uncommon, and I imagine it’s mainly an effort to stop tech journalists analysing random in-progress features for an article. Personally, I wouldn’t want to develop code with that kind of pressure.
Surprised pikachu face… they’ve been closing Android bit by bit every year, everybody knows their real intent is to turn it into closed source.
They are closing nothing here. It’s the equivalent of the developer doing local commits and delaying the public pull request.
PostmarketOS can’t happen fast enough
LineageOS, & GrapheneOS hopefully will still be good for now
As a GrapheneOS user I’m with you on this. Hopefully this won’t negatively impact the development of GOS. I feel like it will though.
I wonder how this will affect Ubuntu Touch.
If google where to close android it’ll undoubtedly be forked. Pretty sure the likes of Graphene and Calyx will be fine for the forseeable future.
I trust them. They showed that they only care for their customers and not for maximizing profits.
/s right?
