@ojonnysilva@fosstodon.org @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz somehow somewhere, i think the answer is going to lie in google losing their grip on aosp, and google's android will continue constricting

google seems increasingly hostile to aosp and seems to regret letting android be so open for so long

i don't realistically think starting over on linux will help, because all the apps are on android already

my personal hunch is that this is going to bite them in the ass, and sooner than later, some big brand is going to end up releasing devices without play services

i think samsung might be the canary to watch, notably absent from the googlebook reveal. maybe i'm wrong and there's a samsung googlebook on the shelves by the winter.