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> an Android app recompiled for Huawei's OS is said to perform 60% faster. I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm not sure if I'd even notice if a single app performed faster at this point. Outside of games (of which the most popular ones are built on 2013-era game engines), most apps people use are extremely utilitarian and don't bog down in this era of octa-core processors and 4GB RAM.
I really hope this happens and that it's not just an ASOP fork and is successful outside of China. It'd be great to have a real, third, alternative operating system that has major support. I'm sick of both Android and eyeProducts. KDE Plasma is supported on barely anything. PostmarketOS is doing amazing stuff; very commendable -- but we still don't have usable OSS drivers for any mobile radios. I honestly liked Micro…
As usual, I am sure we will just get another dose of vendor lock-in.
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Google has no contractual way to prevent someone from using software released under a fully open license. Therefore the US gov has no way of forcing Google to do something they simply can't do.
Yes, however they can refuse Hauwei permission to sell the phones in the US.
Anyway Google cannot prevent them from using Asop.
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> em, I don't know if a lot of dev' are going to repackage their app "play-service" A lot of devs will repackage their apps if it means reaching a market, what 10x the size of the United States (Europe and Asia) ?
Except it will just be huawei for now. We are talking about just one vendor, not the whole Asian/European market.
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I have used Sailfish OS on a smartphone and it's awesome so far. I love it. Russian govt is using it in their offices. I hope more countries seek out alternative OSes.
Sailfish seems to be limited to the EU. It's almost impossible to find their phones on the US eBay (and it seems like they might not work on our LTE networks either .. same with the Fairphone)