As noted by the news release from CalyxOS and Mastodon thread from GrapheneOS, Google did not release the Pixel device-specific source code alongside their Android 16 AOSP release like they usually do. I think many of us, including myself, are hoping this will be published in the near future, but considering they moved AOSP development behind closed doors earlier this year, it’s more likely Google has stopped publishing this section or their code altogether, making development of custom ROMs for Pixel devices significantly more difficult. Sad news for the Android ecosystem, and for open source in general.
Google is slowly closing access to everything. It’s a boiled frog situation. All the red flags are there. We’re fucked.
keep the faith - we are not fucked, we just need to move to different systems entirely.
There is currently no alternative to android. Every alternative is both less secure and less usable.
Less reason to buy a Pixel, then.
Uhg then what? Samsung’s got too much of their own shit data harvesting crap on top of the Google stuff. All other phones basically have shit cameras. Time to go to iPhone? Seems they’re all the same at this point 😜
If you’re in Europe, Fairphone is an option. I’m pretty happy with mine.
the silver lining to all this - devs & users might start turning their attention to linux phones:
