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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

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VCFundedGenYer · 1789760630 · focus · HN ↗
Android has been so thoroughly disappointing through the years. Started as a great open free form alternative to iOS, to becoming the very thing it sought to combat.
1. fgonzag · 1789766958 · focus · HN ↗
  I had never considered using lineageos and the like, but honestly the writing is on the wall. Google is going straight into a closed AI device.
  I'm going to start donating to a few free android distros I guess, I'm probably going to be trying them sooner rather than later, and without AOSP support the dev burden is going to be much higher, and it probably means they'll end up diverging and incompatible at some point (not in both directions, lineage will probably always have to have Android app support)

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