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>>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)

>>mainec+Be
It's a bit disturbing that that might be the plan though.

>>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
No, most "geo" applications depend on Google services and will crash without them. Local authority transit apps, etc.

>>maelit+lr
I've been running GrapheneOS without any Google Services. Most things work without issue.

In the past 2 years I've encountered a total of 3 apps that wouldn't run without Google.

>>mschil+hE
How and why, any idea? Do they have some kind of backend check verified with Google that might return “naah, not a Googled device”? By the way which apps?