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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)

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Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.

The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.

Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 61 points 2 months ago

Even without the custom ROMs, the whole Android ecosystem is a colossal fucking mess.

I've got old apps that won't work any more. It's not even compatible with itself.

People give Windows a load of shit, and deservedly so for some of it, but it's a million times more usable than Android when you want shit to "just work".

[-] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

I've got old apps that won't work any more.

I'm actually for this. The bar to entry for the Play Store is too low with too many low quality and unmaintained apps. I'm all for booting insecure and super old apps. They cheapen the ecosystem.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago

Well that's all very well, but I've got a bathroom speaker I can no longer access.

So how about instead of Daddy Google deciding what's best for everyone, they let things run and give you a warning?

Hell, I've even got games I've paid for that are now gone. Honestly, fuck them for even thinking that's acceptable.

[-] Gingernate@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Why can't you connect to the speaker with Bluetooth?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

It doesn't allow direct connection. You have to dick about with a stupid app to put it in "speaker mode" first.

[-] Gingernate@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Damn that sucks!!!! I wish there was a way to sandbox older apps. I've ran into the same issue with old apps before.

[-] LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Gives me Sonos vibes.

I won a Sonos speaker years ago, thing needed (from memory) an app to switch to AUX mode. The speaker sounded great but I didn't want to install an app just to use the thing.

In a grand spectacle my ex's cat kicked a potplant off a windowsill into our fish tank. That shorted a power board, we didn't have breakers (ceramic / wire fuses) which ended up killing the speaker.

Honestly as nice of a speaker it was, good riddance.

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