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Re:Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starti... by chasil on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:06PM (#43486615)
Amazon maintains their Fire devices with their Android fork.

Huawei maintains their Android fork that runs without the Play store.

Google will not be able to close Android/AOSP without triggering a well-funded fork.

Re:Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starti... by cavisne on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:19PM (#43486785)
The Fire devices seem like they are on life support from a technical point of view (even if Amazon is making money from them). Their fork is really out of date.
Re:Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starti... by la_fayette on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:25PM (#43486871)
Also Meta Horizon OS is based on AOSP. This will probably also affect their development.
Re:Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starti... by theodric on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:47PM (#43487136)
Why would a second company freeloading kernel and services from Google change Google's OSdev roadmap? Google could just say to Meta 'fine, fork and maintain it yourself, you're a grown-up company' and continue on with whatever nefarious rug-pull closed source pivot to Fuschia gambit that they might be plotting.
Re:Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starti... by crossroadsguy on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:34AM (#43494737)
I doubt at this point corps are not looking at that option. But then I don’t know what kind of contract these corps have with Google. I have worked at Samsung and they are such a large incompetent but aware software clusterfuck that they would rather want an almost readymade OS on which they will smear paint and sell. Can’t speak of other OEMs.