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I'd much prefer the devs to spend time adding more linux drivers for the hardware and then we can just install linux without android
Basically androids is linux but on crack. One thing that's holding developers back from further developing Android are Google and smartphone manufacturer. As time goes by, Google implements many things they consider "security," but they turn out to be the biggest stumbling block.
Don't believe it? We used to be able to customize our Android devices to our liking without having to worry about "Play Store Integrity Check," "Play Store Protect," or "Bootloader Check," etc. Now, we can simply resign ourselves to using the stock Android device that came with our smartphone, without being able to modify it or sacrificing the features lost due to custom ROMs.
What’s super ironic is the “Android is more versatile than iOS” crowd is suspiciously quiet now.
We told you, Google doesn’t give a shit about you. That was a strategy for rapid growth. Once they got everything they wanted out of you they were going to lock it down just like Apple did.
Android does provide other abstractions for app devs. That could become a flatpak runtime at some point though ...