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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.

That's true for every operating system. Old apps aren't updated to use new system APIs and such and they eventually stop working.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

On desktops we can use virtual environments, translation layers, plenty of solutions to make old programs and games work on a modern OS. Phones are somehow incapable of this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yet I can compile applications that work on Windows XP, and they still work under Windows 11.

It's not as if Android is some svelte slimline OS where every byte matters. There's plenty of room there for keeping compatibility with older apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Dude there's millions of lines of code and thousands of hours per year that keep old windows shit running. It's a nightmare to support that. Microsoft has made that a priority and you can easily argue it shouldn't be, but you seem convinced that's the only valid path. It's not.