Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/
This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.
Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.
Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.
@rysiek I don't know what it's gonna take for manufacturers to start making true Linux phones more widely available, but we could really use it right about now.
@mebbie @rysiek The phones already exist; now it's up to users to adopt them and, if necessary, improve them to match their needs.
I don't see Google closing Android down as a threat to me. If anything, it may make more people actually interested in the alternatives. What is an actual threat to me are institutions and companies assuming that I'm running either Android or iOS. As things are right now, I can manage to live without them just fine, but things keep moving in the wrong direction.
> The phones already exist; now it's up to users to adopt them and, if necessary, improve them to match their needs.
That's a pretty elitist view. Not every person is a developer, and non-develoepers deserve privacy and chouce just as developers and techies do.
Closing Android will make it much, much harder for F-Droid and independent app developers to reach its audience; and conversely for the audience to discover independent software, which might turn them into supporters.
