Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why
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Google has confirmed it will move development of the Android OS to behind closed doors. Here's why it's doing it.
  • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
    252·
    6 days ago

    It’s not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don’t think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        How so? If Graphene is based off a release branch, there shouldn’t be change in timing. Sure, maybe a little for inspection, but as far as I know Graphene isn’t based off main anyway.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          How so?

          • Developers routinely read along with upstream updates that are relevant to them.
          • Google is removing this access.
          • Google is specifically removing access to read along with upstream updates that are relevant to the developers of GrapheneOS.

          At minimum, this will slow down GrapheneOS releases and increase bugs in GrapheneOS.

          At worst this could cause a new malicious anti-privacy “feature” to ship with GrapheneOS because there’s no time to analyze to discover and remove it.

          It’s almost like Google hates Privacy or something…