Last month, “Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google.”
F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html @fdroid
PC Mag: F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores https://www.pcmag.com/news/f-droid-warns-googles-new-rules-could-kill-third-party-android-app-stores @PCMag #Google #Android
If Google ends up winning, the only things I see possible are to fork AOSP completely and make lineage and graphene operating systems in their own right, instead of in name only, or go to Linux Mobile, and if none of that is possible, then go back to desktop and declare mobile to be dead.
I am not carrying around my desktop computer.
Oh boy, my friend, do I have the perfect product for you. They make this thing called a laptop that takes the usefulness of a desktop and makes it so that it fits in your lap. Can you believe it?
Well, you convinced me. I’m going to get rid of my lightweight handheld computer that can also make phone calls so I can carry around a laptop that by default will not make a phone call.
LMAO
I don’t know much about the Linux phone scene, but I’m taking a look at Ubuntu Touch again.
I think they offer a way of virtualizing it, so I might do that to try it out since I’ve never played with it before.