• @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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      51 year ago

      Google will absolutely be stopping Android development in the relatively near future. They’re already making almost all the new features pixel exclusive, never making their way to AOSP.

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          Their pixel exclusive features absolutely do not require the tensor SOC. They would work on any flagship chip.

          The source is Google want to be Apple with respect to phones. They crave that locked down closed source OS where everyone is beholden to them. They don’t like that their product is used against them by their competitors who often do it better. They’ll drop android development in the relatively near future 100%, when they have their closed source replacement.

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              No? Not sure how you got that from what I posted lol.

              Google aren’t going to kill android. I never said that. What they’re going to do is make a new OS for their mobiles and devices and stop android development. As I pointed out, they’ve already begun this with fuchsia and by not adding 90% of their new OS features to AOSP. They don’t want their OS to be open source anymore, that was just how they would capture the market they wanted.

              The last few Android OS versions outside of pixels have just been essentially UI and security updates. Virtually no new features. Everything is pixel exclusive. This is their way of weaning off Android into their new closed source OS. They’ve already updated all of their Google home hubs to fuchsia.

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                  Is stopping Android development not killing it?

                  No, because AOSP is open source. Samsung for example has been doing far more for android development than Google have.

                  What would it take for you to consider Google to have killed android?

                  Google can’t really kill Android because it’s open source and every OEM has their own fork of it.