Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoand google will be doing everything they can to grow incompatibility and make maintaining an open fork impossible. don’t forget that google employs devs for pay, but fork maintainers are doing it as a hobby, out of passion, while already working somewhere. It’s a bit similar to matrix, its homeservers and clients. the spec and the software evolves slowly, but its still too fast for alt implementations
Polderviking@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Google can only do that if they can maintain grip on the market. This requires the likes of Samsung to move with them to their then propiatary solution. Google is not going to win this just with their Pixels.
Google closing android would ruffle a lot of feathers so it definitely wouldn’t be a given they would come out of that on top.
Apple has no problem existing outside of Google’s sphere of influence. And honestly if the android market would split and you’d get legitimately google-less phones with large app stores that google doesn’t control that would be fairly beneficial if you ask me.