>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/08/google_is_taking_android_proprietary_heres_how/
>Technology analyst Richard Windsor says that a highly confidential internal project is underway to rewrite the ART runtime, removing any lingering dependencies from the freely downloadable open source AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code base.
Don't tell me you didn't see this coming from a million miles away (what with pretty much every OEM who ships Android doing this since the beginning of time).
If you needed any more proof that corporations only hype up and """""""support""""" Open Sores™ for purely financial reasons, this is it. And don't even talk about Free Software, because although its acolytes won't admit it, that movement has never been more apparently dead and defeated. We're back to the 90s, except with megacorps having way better PR.
>>54980748
oh well, guess i'm done with android when this hits.
>>54980783
Where are you going to go? Apple products?
>>54980800
No, Innawoods
>>54980783
don't update then you sissy, i'm sure no one cares about your anime pictures and mum's number on your mobile
>>54980748
Custom ROMS BTFO
Nice. Android might finally be able to match iOS
> For example, it took two years for its launch of the 2014 version of Android (L) to overtake the 2013 version (K).
This is why I dont use android. I like it but I like getting software updates better. Keeps my devices relevant without any need to buy a new phone every 2 years.
>>54980800
>>54980823
done as in done updating.
would move to a different phone OS, but stuck with a phone that doesn't have a port for any other than android.
>>54980800
Dunno about him but I'm going back to a flip phone with a proper physical keyboard. Nothing more satisfying than flipping a phone shut to end a conversation.
>>54980748
EMBRACED
EXTENDED
EXTINGUISHED
>technology forum
>on computers
>muh loonix
>look how 1337 h@x0r i am i wiped windows and installed loonix
>muh freedums
>lol enjoy ur botnet
>>54980926
>meanwhile on smartphones
>proprietary closed source 4 lyfe
>i don't have to and can't install anything
>lmao who cares about freedom
>omg i love botnet
if you have Gapps you are already on the botnet anyway.
>>54980800
Kde plasma mobile.
https://youtu.be/auuQA0Q8qpM
>>54981308
iDiots != /g/
It just says they want to remove dependencies from a library.
Google userland (gapps) are already proprietary (which you can remove with root) and they can't make the kernel nor any derivation proprietary because it's GPL and they don't own it.
nice b8
>>54981374
>This on a Pyra
I'm ready
Will they write their own kernel?
>>54981374
Looks promisibg!
>>54980800
As if there's a shortage of older android phones on the second hand market
