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As an EU citizen I’d say this should be a wakeup call to push for an alternative and open OS.
Fairphone with Linage or e/OS, the best EU alternatives
i have a feeling android is not the best alternative to android
That is nonsense, Android is OpenSource, based on Linux, adapted to mobile, but with APIs controlled by Google, Linage, e/OS, Ubuntu Touch, etc… are other distros of Linux for Mobile, compatible with Android apps. There Google can do nothing to avoid the use of not approved apps, like it can do it in Android due it’s inbuild APIs and banning those from Google Play, which other OS don’t have or use. Because of this I also don’t like GrapheneOS, because it works only on Google Phones, which can block apps on HW base if Google want it. In other Phones, eg.FairPhone with own idependent OS, there Google see only the middle finger.
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Don’t forget that Graphene OS is made to work exclusivly in a Google phones, that gives Google naturally the possibility to control what you can do with Graphene OS and what not. But Google didn’t have any influence in independent Phones and other Linux forks than Android. It’s like saying that MS has influences in Linux Mint or other distro on desktop. Google has influences in his products, OS and its apps, not in those of others.
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Android as such is FOSS, but as said + Google’s added crap. Out there also exist an degoogled version without it. It’s a modified Linux for Mobile, same as other mobil distros.
i get the feeling that both lineage and graphene are only temporary measures; locking down android is only the first step and google will push for further lockdown eventually.
They literally have no power over the ROMs lol
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the phone makers do and they’ll do whatever google wants them to do.
Nope. Just reinstall the OS. It’s no different than laptops
but it’s got A LOT caveats compared to normal bios based systems and many manufacturers are locking them down.
What this basically is is signees asking Google to fix the problem that Google itself caused. I hope for other people’s sake that this goes through, but since we’re talking about Google, I am all but convinced that Google will pull something like this again in the future.
Eh, good riddance to gapps
