Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 week agoExactly. I don’t think they’d ever go down this road, but the big players like Samsung have agreements in place where they will continue to get access to main or some trunk. No reason they couldn’t change license and require all players to do the same thing, though O doubt that would happen given the massive security PR implications. So many Android devices would end up with vulnerabilities, tarnishing the image.
Patch@feddit.uk 1 week ago
There’s also just no real incentive for them to do it. The number of devices running fully de-googled Android forks are miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everyone running devices with non-standard Android but which still uses Google Play Services and the rest are just as valuable to Google as the ones running stock. And it suits Google to have the small ultra-privacy hobbyist market still running Android forks, even de-googled ones, rather than moving on to something else entirely.