Keep android open

Waydroid will likely be a big part of that in the near term, though I'd image its use will largely circumvent Google's recent impositions anyway.

I'm curious about how projects like calyx and graphene are affected by this, if at all.

Somebody explain to me how this affects something like lineage OS? It's based on aosp, it has nothing to do with Google.

Then if you add something like microG on it, how is that impacted by this decision?

I suppose they could detect and reject anything from microg. In which case, Google has just eliminated a customer base. Of course, we the enlightened who even care about security and privacy are few and far between and maybe they've made that calculation.

Personally, I'm in a tough spot since I've been using Google Voice for literally a decade and a half.

Now, I can use lineage OS for microG successfully with Google Voice. However if they decide to block that I will be left with basically two options. 1. Give in and just do whatever Google wants, or 2. ditch Google entirely and use lineage and only side loaded applications like those on F-Droid.

However, I saw an announcement that this move by Google effectively kills F-Droid. If their change does end up killing AOSP, then it really isn't open source and uncontrolled by Google, is it?

Me too

literaly, yeah fuck android, it's a reallly bad os

Same I use grapheneos onto to my pixel 9a

I mean surely, they have direct access to the AOSP code, I'm sure they can just remove the anti freedom parts.