• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Soooo, that means that android is fucked but custom roms should be able to continue from android 15, not?

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      19 hours ago

      The more time goes by, the worse the divergence will be. (I think this is basically the idea, but correct me if I’m wrong:) Right now, we might have GrapheneOS 15 vs Android 16. But eventually, there will be an Android 17 and an Android 18. GrapheneOS developers will either have to trudge along with an older OS, or hire more developers to recreate the missing pieces of the code - pieces Google has already created but will never release . The missing pieces will get bigger and more significant. Android 15 will age out of security updates.

      This is pretty bad.