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Breaking - Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
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It isn't completely dead since projects like Lineage OS exist
It takes work to maintain but it seems to be the best option. It is what AOSP used to be.
LineageOS, Graphene, etc. all require AOSP at their core. AOSP contains the necessary binary blobs to activate hardware features in proprietary chips like modems, graphics controllers, etc., and also the communications infra for proprietary blobs on devices to talk to the OS in the case where the blobs have to be extracted from a proprietary ROM and ported over.
While those OS forks could continue to exist for some years, and probably will, they'll be hitting an increasing uphill battle.
Problems like:
The third-party OSes (all of them) have always been dependent on current AOSP existing. Without it, they will be missing the OS core to keep things going.
Isn't Lineage reliant upon AOSP existing, though? I imagine it'll be tough surviving for them once all the restrictions Google's been announcing are put in place...
Google still publishes source code
If they didn't phone manufacturers would have a very hard time porting Android