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Ditching Android is not a good solution - see the application support problem on Linux for why. What we need is a serious and well-funded Android "distro" that
by franga2000 6y ago
Ditching Android is not a good solution - see the application support problem on Linux for why. What we need is a serious and well-funded Android "distro" that lifts Google's dumb restrictions and reimplements Google's proprietary APIs for compatibility. MicroG is doing very well on that second part, but due to lack of funding still has far too many holes.
- meltedcapacitor 6y agoNo amount of funding can fix this, at least for all use cases where apps communicate via google services between phone and app HQ. The average bank is not going to send data between bank and user via microg-operated pipes instead of google-operated pipes because 0.1% of their users don't like google.
- franga2000 6y agoThe average banking app doesn't communicate via google-operated pipes. Basically the only thing I've seen baking apps do via Google (and I've reverse-engineered quite a few) is the SafetyNet check to ensure their bullshit policy about modified devices. Well, that and notifications, but microG already emulates that library and uses Google's servers afaik. If a phone manufacturer started shipping Android phones without GApps and they got popular enough, developers would start being more careful with relying on Google Services. We saw this with Huawei - their phones are reall popular where I live and after tons of complaints from huawei users, a bunch of companies fixed their apps to gracefully handle the lack of Google Play Services.