It feel like we’re losing to Google, day by day. They aren’t killing AOSP
directly, but they are making it useless step by step. Now it’s Google Play
Services, Play Integrity checks, installation source checks… more and more apps
just refuse to run without GMS. Banking apps? Most of them don’t work. And it’s
only getting worse. I run vanilla AOSP on my main profile, no Play Services. I
keep GMS only in my work profile for the apps that absolutely need it. But now
even some regular apps that don’t need any play services won’t work on my main
profile anymore. They simply block your from running , like le chat. Maps is
google’s most important app there is no way to run without play services. Sure
we can use webview or gmaps wv, but they don’t provide turn-by-turn directions.
Earlier maps used to work without play services, but two years ago, an update
stopped it from working. Now that old version is out of date and no longer
works. Google is slowly making GMS very important to run. The problem with GMS
is they require to run as system app and has to have all the permissions by
default. Hope EU puts pressure to make google allow apps to run independently
without GMS or atleast install them as user apps(like graphene os sandboxed play
services). If we keep going on like this, AOSP can only run fdroid apps in the
future.
Of the largest android sellers, only samsung requires gplay. Xiaomi, vivo, oppo, realme, honor, are all chinese companies that require non-bundled google play for their domestic (and maybe other countries?) releases. Google can’t alienate these sellers, and if they did, all of these companies would create their own AOSP fork (or just switch to HarmonyOS)
I recently bought a xiaomi android tablet that doesn’t have google play services luckily.
Comrade dessalines, shilling chinese corpo slop instead of the standard open-source solutions.
Yeah my understanding that the proprietary firmware blobs in SoCs like Qualcomm etc do have them.
I am assuming Chinese would have the same but a lot of their phones have Qualcomm too so I am not sure how Chinese would do that if they are using westoid SoC
Yeah my understanding that the proprietary firmware blobs in SoCs like Qualcomm etc do have them.
I’m assuming hardware backdoor, or backdoor in general rabbit hole goes really deep, but I’m not tech literate enough to process it, so I just assume everything is backdoored in some way
Yeah my understanding that the proprietary firmware blobs in SoCs like Qualcomm etc do have them.
I am assuming Chinese would have the same but a lot of their phones have Qualcomm too so I am not sure how Chinese would do that if they are using westoid SoC
I’m assuming hardware backdoor, or backdoor in general rabbit hole goes really deep, but I’m not tech literate enough to process it, so I just assume everything is backdoored in some way
Sir I am regarded
But I never seen any good tinfoil on the hardware level, wouldn’t it need physical acceess?
I guess it depends. Intel ME doesn’t need hardware access, it’s a backdoor in the open.