New releases of android aren’t open source and available to the public, the source code is released much later now. You need to be an OEM to get access. This is a real problem faced by developers like Lineage and Graphene
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
the replaceable batteries will be coming back (thanks EU, don’t know if it will spill over to the US tho), and regarding the headphone jack there seems less and less market - wireless headphones have started to win out with features like ANC, passthrough and long battery times (i have to charge mine about once a week, and they are not new), on top of getting rid of the cable that annoyed more people than it endeared. You still can use cabled headphones with an adapter, so i don’t think it’s a catastrophal loss.
Android is opensource. ROM developers like lineageos should be able to create nornal ROMs with sideload enabled
Bank software is the issue.
New releases of android aren’t open source and available to the public, the source code is released much later now. You need to be an OEM to get access. This is a real problem faced by developers like Lineage and Graphene
That’s a misconception
https://www.ctol.digital/news/android-open-source-google-development-lockdown/
This is literally what I said
Right so ROM developers could still do what they do. Only that it would take longer.
Not ideal but not so grim
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
Not really realistic at all. There’s a market for unlocked devices, and where there’s money, there’ll be a way.
There’s a market for headphone jacks and replaceable batteries too but we all see how that turned out.
the replaceable batteries will be coming back (thanks EU, don’t know if it will spill over to the US tho), and regarding the headphone jack there seems less and less market - wireless headphones have started to win out with features like ANC, passthrough and long battery times (i have to charge mine about once a week, and they are not new), on top of getting rid of the cable that annoyed more people than it endeared. You still can use cabled headphones with an adapter, so i don’t think it’s a catastrophal loss.
My phone has both of those things though?
Yeah, mine too, it’s not the fastest and most cutting-edge one, though, maybe that’s what they mean.