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Derek Ross · 22w
We can do better. We have to do better. But it's a massive uphill battle, since Google and Apple control 99% of the mobile market. We need a viable third party player. nostr:nevent1qqsra4mx3xfa3th7...
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Does it matter if they have 99% of the market? Apple and Google are both locking down the hardware so you can’t replace the OS. With Google you still have options like LineageOS but that might change soon. Android isn’t really open source. So what choices are left?

Would be nice to have iPhone-like hardware quality paired with a boot loader that lets the user choose between various free OS‘s that have compatibility with Android APKs. That would require a translation layer.
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CR45H 0V3RR1D3 · 22w
Android is open source, it’s literally in the name (AOSP-Android Open Source Project). As long as you can unlock the bootloader, you can flash whatever you want. The problem is relocking it, unless you have a custom AVB key, you can’t and I believe only pixels can be relocked with a modified boo...