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Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why
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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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I could only hope this would make a good case for some EU-funded project for a fully open RISC 5 Linux phone.
With an sd card and easily swappable battery pls.
And FM radio!
The problem is software. The ecosystem of android is gigantic. Every business, big or small has an app.
Microsoft tried and failed. No users, no apps. No apps, no users.
Google actively worked against Microsoft and got what they wanted: no competition.
If you have Linux, you have waydroid. There can be a transition time, just like the Steam Deck is making clear the need of a windows computer for gaming is now irrelevant.
Biggest issue is banking apps, those need some sort of care to make work either by increasing the amount of Linux phones or by introducing patches that convince these banking apps that waydroid is legit (likely to be fixed)
Banking apps just buy into false security peddled by google. They are absolutely not necessary for security of an app, just like kernel level DRM & anti cheat is not necessary for video games.
Yeah, they're the same situation of anti cheats, and banking apps might be even more conservative on these decisions vs. game developers