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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Maybe, maybe not. Periods of hardware and software lockdown have ended before.

A hard fork off of Android seems like the easier path to me if it does. Sure, they can break compatibility, but it will take a while for that to catch up with us, and in the meanwhile we can use apps and infrastructure that already exists. And Fairphone, at the very least, seems likely to continue being receptive to whatever ROM you want.