• lightsecond@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Burning a new ROM is just as hard fora regular user as jailbreaking an iPhone, so practically it doesn’t make a difference if android is open-source or not.

    Also, even though core android is OSS, what you and i run on our phones heavily depends on the play framework which is Google proprietary. Amazon has tried and failed to fork android before with its fire devices and that hasn’t worked.

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      1 year ago

      FYI GrapheneOS is trivial to install (you don’t need to do all that exploit and root nonsense you used to have to!) and runs entirely without Google Play Services (unless you want to install them in a less-invasive way, which is also officially supported)

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        1 year ago

        This also applies to most custom ROMs such as Pixel Experience, LineageOS or ArrowOS. Lineage can be installed with or without Google services on most phones

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        1 year ago

        Trivial to install if you have a pixel phone. As far as I can tell on their website, no other devices are officially supported, and building your own rom for your phone is out of reach for most (even advanced) users

        • bug@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          Correct, they say that pixels are the only phones that are secure enough for their needs (and the fact that they’re pretty developer-friendly I imagine is a big plus)