That is terrifying
Guess its actually time to switch to a linux phone. Hope one of them works with my hardware
Probably not time yet. The interim is an alternate OS such as lineage or graphene. Don’t use google play and you’re fine.
Basically that’s a short term solution to wait out this stupid policy to get fixed, or if they double down it gives Linux phones a bit more time to come to market (I have not used one, but its essentially unanimous they are not ready to be a replacement today).
I don’t like this.
How does this affect LineageOS?
Does HarmonyOS allow side loading? I just got my Honor Magic V5 but don’t see myself staying on it long term. I wouldn’t update past a certain Android release but I will run the risk of being on an insecure release.
Edit: Confirmed. HarmonyOS Will Support App Side-Load. Maybe F-Droid can move to OpenHarmony.
Google wants to control everything. So bad operating systems can’t be installed on phones as easy as on computers.
