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They're not "pulling" the app from anywhere, it's just simply not going to work on "certified devices". This is the end of Android as we know. It's been a good run.
Yes you're right. I've worded that wrong in the title!
You can edit it 🙂
Done! for the curious, original title, "Cirrus App dev pulling app from certified android devices in '26/'27" new, "Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27"
When one thing dies, another thing is born.
UBPorts is ready to go and isn’t tied to Google hardware like Graphene.
Doesn’t have manufacturer support
Volla, Fairphone, and Pine offer devices with it preinstalled and it works on a wide variety of others.
I think you’re aware of the size of those manufacturers compared to the ones shipping Android.
It's also absurdly lacking in features compared to Android/iOS (never mind app support) and the dev team is so small they can barely maintain existing device support. VoLTE is still unsupported in the majority of devices. The OS doesn't even have basic security features like drive encryption
I like UBPorts a lot but I think the alternative/FOSS smartphone market is too fragmented between it and SailfishOS/PostMarketOS that none of them will emerge with enough adoption to be real competitors to the iOS/Android duopoly. Didn't mean to be overly negative. Just my two cents
And what's being born?
It should die first
Only works for those of us who own a pixel or bought one for the reason but this won't effect Graphene users
Except it will, because developers aren't going to bother maintaining an app where the install base is just pixel users with Graphene
Yep. We'll be fine for a while but Google's seriously axing the platform for foss projects and security-minded users. In no more than half a decade I anticipate Android's open-source development scene will begin looking very similar to Apple's.
It's going to affect 100% of Android users because no one is going to develop apps just for the 10 people using uncertified devices.
We're at least a dozen!
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