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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 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] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It has been pretty depressing to me that the tech literate have been so easily lulled into accepting such things in the name of “cool toys” and “security” virtually everywhere in modern life besides the PC/laptop/server spaces.

From my exposure to supporting said folks with PC related problems, its easy to see the reality here. Phones provide a streamlined experience with zero frills. They don't want super flexible computing devices, they want appliances. More to the point, the level of care and maintenance needed to have a top-shelf PC experience is time and effort most people would rather not expend. Doing this right was inconvenient to begin with, and left the field wide open for anything that would be easier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My complaint is not that the "appliance" solutions exist for those that want them. But that there is next to no room in the market now for options that are not those "appliance" solutions for those that do want them but also want to take part in the modern tech world with things like NFC payments without having to trick the services with Magisk modules.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Oh, we're on the same page there. I'm complaining about that too. Things are shifting from "make the environment easier for some people" to "painstakingly chisel out an expert mode like you're escaping from Shawshank." and I do not like it.