>>joseph+(OP)
I hope they make it closed source and make us much money out of it as possible for shareholders that is their job and their duty, why are they giving this away for free they have already captured market share by claiming opensource and building a community now all they have to do is make it proprietary and the old opensource version slowly wither and become unstable, then they can charge money for the operating system just like mircrosoft but this time on phone millions and billions of phones, $$$$$. /S (I obviously do not agree with this)
>>monetu+Jj
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.
>>microt+3m
What apps? I think only android auto requires it. All the rest works just fine with occasional glitches.
Of course that most probably greatly depends of what kind of apps you are using but usually microG is just enough.
>>npodbi+Fq
Many banking apps will outright refuse to run on rooted devices, much less google-free forks.
There are ways around that but those ways are unreliable and could break at any given time -- I am not risking losing the ability to pay for things online just for the sake of running an android fork. (in my country, all the banks switched to requiring 2FA from their app if you make online purchases with your visa or mastercard)
>>avgd+sy
That is sad. I do not have a problem with my 2 banking apps and Revolut.
But I am running MicroG version of Lineage OS.
So no google, but still works. I think this is worth a try, considering how many adds you have to see on Android running full Google (which I have just one to be able to use Android Auto inside my car).