Because effectively nothing is changing. Android is still open source, OEMs still have access to the internal branches for early development, custom ROMs will still have to wait until the new version is released to source entirely.
There are many other apps, like Signal, that have the same development approach but no one complained about it. It’s just a lot of misinformation due to misunderstandings with these headlines.
Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.
GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too
might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk
This really sucks. Why isn’t it making more noise ?
Because effectively nothing is changing. Android is still open source, OEMs still have access to the internal branches for early development, custom ROMs will still have to wait until the new version is released to source entirely.
There are many other apps, like Signal, that have the same development approach but no one complained about it. It’s just a lot of misinformation due to misunderstandings with these headlines.
Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.
GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too
might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk