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1. aboringusername · 1790975686 · focus · HN ↗

   It's concerning to hear about the disarray within the internal workings of Android, they've spoken quite a lot about this recently such as getting access to the code and having to make manual requests.

   I'm curious if there's any back up plan to an operating system used by billions. One would think, and hope, the EU would have an alternative ready to go at a moment's notice. Android is literally too big to fail, but I doubt the EU would be ready even though you could consider the failing of Android a national security emergency.

   I would like to know more about what's going on at Google that are causing these issues.

   1. surajrmal · 1791044854 · focus · HN ↗

      The model for Android is that the OS is provided by the OEM. They work in partnership with Google. GrapheneOS tries to work against this model by not partnering with the OEM on supporting their hardware with its OS. Ultimately that's not sustainable given the dynamics of the ecosystem. This is why they are moving to a model where they do work with an OEM directly. These sorts of problems will subside once that happens.

      You could argue that the current ecosystem dynamic is not great for the longer term, but it will require a change from the OEMs to enable something different as they are the ones actually in control of the situation.

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