Google is closing down Android. Fuck Google, move to GNU/Linux.
>>529497505i'm afraid i dont really know how
>>529497505there are hardly any non-android linux phones and they will 100% install AI spyware on android at some point
>>529497505Samsung too is removing the ability to install non-Play store apps.https://9to5google.com/2026/02/27/samsung-galaxy-update-android-recovery-menu-removed/
>>529497505>In August 2025, Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. >This registration will involve:>Paying a fee to Google>Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions>Providing government identification>Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key>Listing all current and future application identifiersThis just tells me that something big is going to happen in August or early September.
I think its over. Everything is being compromised and centralised. The elites have to go at this point.
>>529497746That's true. US think tanks stated that the US needs greater population control in order to attack China. How do you achieve that in a free country?
>Fairphone 6Well that's the latest for now and with Murena OS, you cut out jewgle, completely.Sure it's not the cutting edge phone but do you honestly need that?
>>529497954Sony phones have unkocked bootloaders and for some reason all ROMfags avoid making custom roms for it. HOW CURIOUS
>>529497615True but you most likely already have one of these devices somewhere in a drawer.
>centralizedAn understatement.
They're going all out with the control/no freedom/privacy bullshit. It's going to get crazy
>>529497954You don't get it. There's no escape within the system.You don't even need a phone. You have to use a phone because the authorities force you to. They're not going to let you use alternative software and hardware they can't control. That's missing the point.
Macintosh did this
>>529498054No, I don't have these shit phones in a drawer. Also half of these are chromebooks and tablets.
>>529497505If you ever used Android to begin with then you are retarded
I suggest throwing a brick
Gnulinux It doesn't get any support on phones.
>>529498446you guys have the best folk music
>AndroidHAHHHAHiChads stay winning
>>529498435Easy to say when you have no one to talk to
>>529498520Ifags were already fucked dumbass
>>529497505itoddlerbros did we get too cocky??? Our jeetdroid phones are exactly the same now???
>>529497746ID 2O2O Sponsored by Palantir
>>529498270I already have one. Are they gonna force me to sell it to them?They better be ready to pay premium then..You can buy this phone with the custom OS right from the manufacturer so you don't even need to learn how to change OS yourself
>>529498059Oracle/Ellison also is buying Warner/CNN
>>529498958And how do you use it with institutions?
>>529499442You don't. If it can't be accessed via a web browser, fuck them.
>>529497505I have to use an iPhone for work and it's like a phone made for children, which makes sense why women love it so much. It's like a phone from the early 2000s that was never refined, extremely difficult and frustrating to use. I'm in disbelief that Apple is still even able to sell those hunks of shit.
>>529499762This is my exact point
Maybe someone can help.I have permanently lost the icon for AudioAnchor app from F-Droid. I can only access it through the Settings. The app won't update.Can I revive the app icon somehow? I tire of opening the app the hard way.
>>529500023Uninstall it and install again.
step 1 and only: uninstall google apps including play store. if you can't do this smash your phone.
>>529498446>>529498478There was a video of two Georgian cuties walking down a trail in nature and singing a folk song, that was often reposted on /int/ about 5-10 years ago, anyone has it?
>>529500116I did it and it works, but all my data was deleted. What kind of app deletes your precious metadata? What if you wanted to reinstall it? I didn't realize I could export it. Now I've lost my progress on a book I've dropped 3 months ago.
>>529502560Use TitaniumBackup on a rooted phone next time.
>>529497746It means Google is trying to bring up their quality and security standards to that of Apple to make their products and services more competitive.This is especially important as Google intends to use Android programming language as the base for their new PC OS, possible called Aluminum OS. With phones you can have a degree of wiggle room for security, but for PCs this is absolutely not the case (Even Microsoft learned this lesson early on despite having an inherently easier OS to infect).Google wants to become the end all and be all of computational products and services and have an even wider net for data to feed into their AI products.Anyone against these basic security features is actually retarded. Google only needs to complete a few steps and it's going to unleash a who new slew of mind blowing products. Microsoft and Apple are shitting themselves right now.
>>529503841Fuck you for this bad faith retarded non-argument.
Billions of people use apple and they are having sex and are okay with their phone being locked by Apple so why should I care about this?How will this prevent me from having sex?Nothing else in life matters.
>>529504288>so why should I care about this?Because you are white?
>>529504196It's not a non-argument is is the only correct argument.
>>529497505>move to linuxI would, but shitty banking and medical apps are platform locked. I'd stick to a dumbphone if not for those.
>>529503841>>529504507They are only doing this because they don't like jailbreaking.
>>529499769100% this! My wife's work phone is an iPhone and the functionality doesn't make sense. Android does. I don't get how they have all these buttons on the side and none turn off the phone.
>>529504591Yes the jew locks you in, all American tech is spyware by design. No real innovation in 15+ years
>>529497505It's called Linux
No they are doing this to roll out mandatory internet ID.California where much of this tech is made is passing a law requiring age/id verification at the install of pc OS or phone setup. All OS legally require ID/age verificationOS like custom os not complying illegal.Rooting and bootloader unlocks removed recently.Now side loading.All apps tracked and controlled through centralized approval service.Google just updated android os this year to keep track of your phone serial number not track you just by accounts and cookies.PCs do the same with motherboard, gpu, cpu.They are requiring linking id to OS that track you via hardware and software.This all started after the bump in antisemitism, criticism of Israel, and loss of controlling the narrative through traditional media newer gens barely use.
>>529497505does that mean I can finally get rid of google scam ware on my samsung android phone. sounds like a win to me.
>>529505594This will result in more Luigis in real life.
>>529497505I have a phone running Ubuntu touch and another phone running PostMarketOS with Phosh
>>529497505Will this affect LineageOS?
>>529497505Chinks will save us with HarmonyOS.
>>529505722Means the opposite, google scamware is now mandated.No apps not through google play. If google play chooses not to carry it or feels it violates service (like letting you do anything cool with phone) that app or tool is uninstallable.If your phone is old or an odd model the app doesn't list as supported even if it would work google play just won't let you install it and you cant side load it.>>529505748The id requirement and support laws and hardware os integration are just the start of a basis upon which to roll out later censorship and be able to enforce hate speech/wrong think laws to come. All easily catalogged by ai and referenced in databases shared, sold, or lost in occassional data breaches.
>>529506055Yes. They are outlawing/removing most bootloader unlocking and sideloading of software.While california is basicly outlawing custom os versions not implementing id/age verification on install like most github projects.
>>529498858Good, it's about time. There's nothing we can do to stop illegals without having a strong central ID in place.
>>529503841Holy fuck, if Gaggle ain't paying you, they should start ASAP with all the shit you have eaten.Gaggle is still an advertising company. You can't even buy a new Android phone without boundless uninstallable/unpausable Gaggle apps running in the background 24/7/365 that you don't even want to fucking use. And then you have even more fucking bloat from the shit manufacturers with the same fucking problem as above.If Gaggle was worried about security, it would give people MORE options to choose their OWN security setup instead of the nasty shit they do.All big tech companies are a fucking disease at this point. Ain't nothing MIND BLOWING ever going to come out of any of them. I mean they have to tie UI changing in with security update for a reason, dipshit.
Are chink phones safe from this
Its timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w
>>529497505Graphine os anon. Though this will probably be effected by this through it no longer being profitable to maintain apps, should be good for a few years.
>>529505301>the jew locks you inIt's more than that. The app is working fine on old phone, retrieves an update (no new features, no nothing), suddenly, new phone with new Android required. Happened to me twice. They change the server protocols so the old app can't speak to them anymore, release a mandatory update, and suddenly, you need new phone. Shit.
>>529507348The chinks ironically had the first phone id required authoritarian state where a phone is required to spend money or enter most housing. Which mandated people use things constantly being hacked and suffer identity theft by law.Yet I too am hoping some of their phones offer the freedoms being lost in western tech and phone manufacturers.Imagine needing communist chinese tech to have freedom in the west.
>>529497505>develop an app>get rejected because jews didn't approve itthat's your future lmao
>>529497505https://www.theverge.com/news/819835/google-android-sideloading-experienced-users-developer-verification
>>529508201>Android president Sameer Samat
>>529500935trio mandeli probably
>>529497615>they will 100% install AI spyware on android at some pointDuring ceausescus, cursed be thy name, kin and soul, all our phones were tapped. We were akways taught to not discuss important or sensitive matters over the phone especially politics and instead jokingly start the conversation with the phrase - Good day to you and our listeners to let them know you were aware of them. This mindset was maintained to this day in the generations born during communism and immediately after. You just need to learn/reacquire those skills and beware of what you speak/write at the phone.
>>529503841
>>529500023>>529500116If you can't find the app to uninstall it, use something like revo uninstaller which scans for every app on the phone.
>>529504591>>529507620Fuck, I hate you street shitting retards so much it hurts.
I bet this is because of AI as well. I might just buy a linux phone and script it to hell. Build my own apps on it with agents. Have whatever I want.
>>529497505Didn't google went back and forth a few time about this already? They are using the usual exhaust strategy
>>529497856Just keep seething about it online retard, I'm sure someone else will do something about it
>>529498446https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/
>>529503841>more competitive Android is and has already been the winner and you're a gay nigger.
>>529497505If jailbreaking didn't potentially fuck my banking/digital signature apps, I'd have gone GrapheneOS a long time ago. One has to accept phone is a zogged device meant for convenience not for privacy. Get a linux laptop.
>>529509506>One has to accept phoneWhy in the FUCK would anyone need to just accept that stupid nigger shit in a product they pay for?
>>529509506>If jailbreaking didn't potentially fuck my banking/digital signature appsit doesnt tho unless ur phone is some zogged shitbox
>>529503841Sideloading programs like Photoshop or Autocad from .exe files on Windows is yuck.I can't wait until they crack down on this stuff and we're all using safe programs from the Microsoft Store like SUPER PAINT 2026 PRO (REAL).
>>529497505why would you even android when the os is so shitty, i love my iphone and it never makes problems. fuck android.
>>529511393post hands
>>529497746Full totalitarianism, that's where we are going. There will be little alternatives anymore (grapheneOS wouldn't help, since nobody is going to develope for it). All phone apps then need to be in compliance with google or apple to for you to be able to run them on phone.
>>529509506>one has to acceptWhat an odd thing to say.
>>529497637It was totally obvious that this was the end goal of smartphones. They didn't run a real operating system that actually put the user in control to start with. I wish people weren't so damn shallow. This technology should've been ghosted for privacy and autonomy reasons. Instead the idiot masses bought into this and everyone got one. Next thing you notice: Regimes use this to oppress the people. Oh, how could this possibly have happened, retards ! Same with social media & psy-ops. We had private forums ! They chose walled gardens with algorithms, fact checkers, reach censorship, deplatforming and user tracking that sell their user data to glowniggers and anyone willing to pay for the data, even scammers that use it for identity theft and scam calls.The only good thing about this: Alternatives still exist and can be developed. Nobody actually needs this. Retard lemmings are gonna be retard lemmings though, never learn, never improve, never act responsible for the consequences that will come with their actions.
>>529503841So Fuchsia OS evolved into Aluminium OS?
