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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: 2, Insightful) by messymerry on Wednesday October 10 2018, @03:51PM
Not so fast, homeboy,,, Google doesn't want Android either. That is why they are building Fuschia. They took the high road and created AOSP and quickly learned their mistake. Since then, they have tried to increase their control by bastardizing Android to the point where it is a management mess. They want it gone. I'm sure Fuschia is going to be pretty much entirely proprietary globs.
This is the time for the other 'wannabes' like Tizen etc. to step up and force allowances by the manufacturers and carriers to allow for more than two existing OSs. Observing the two party political system in the United States, we can clearly see that they only pretend to compete. Not much different between Apple and Android.
Please all you other mobile OS possibilities keep working on getting something out so we can have a choice that includes dignity, privacy, and control over our devices.
Those who mortgage their freedom for the promise of security shall have neither.
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