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from the why-improve-when-you-can-reinvent? dept.
Glyn Moody over at the Linux Journal brings attention to the idea that Android's days are probably numbered and that it is time to consider viable exit strategies and file them for when they are needed later. Android is currently on over 2-billion devices around the world but the EU, goaded by Microsoft partners and proxies, has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros over Android for breaching EU antitrust rules weakening its usefulness. With an obvious replacement, Fuchsia, nearing completion at Google, and with the smartphone manufacturers also exploring alternative plans, such as Tizen and eelo, Android is starting to get alternatives. Just as the ages of CP/M, MS-DOS, and MS Windows have ended, so too will the current age of Android draw to a close. Eventually. Someday.
Previously on SN, Google Hopes to Replace Android with Fuschia[sic] in Five Years
(Score: 3, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 09 2018, @07:48PM
They already do have control over forking... The Google Play Store.
It only exists on open source Android forks to basically allow google to add its tracking powers to those people.
However, it is powerful because anyone that has bought multiple programs from google already do not need to but them again.
Its also the major difference between Android devices and Android based Amazon Fire products.
Its hard to claim independence from Google if it means all the programs you like are no longer available.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P