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  • Postmarket OS
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  • Plasma Mobile
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  • Nemomobile
  • Droidian
  • Mobile NixOS
  • ExpidusOS
  • Maemo Leste
  • Manjaro Arm
  • Tizen
  • WebOS

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  • PinePhone
  • FLX1
  • Librem 5

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Google will be restricting Android soon! (piefed.ca)
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Google will soon be requiring android app developers to pay $25 to register their governments ids to make apps outside of the play store.

The package (com.google.android.verifier) will be introduced on devices running Android 8 or higher, granting Google the ability to block the installation of unverified apps.

Complete your migration plans before Google puts up the barbed wire making it much harder to leave.

The alternatives are Graphene, Calyx, Sailfish, FuriOS, Ubuntu Touch and Postmarket OS.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

what do you mean?

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No support, no apps, extremely limited. Only one good feature, windows phones had great cameras.

[–] nooch@lemmy.vg 1 points 15 minutes ago

Also, not open source

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It has apps though - both native (3 app stores full) and the option to run Android apps.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dead?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

SailfishOS has been alive and well for 13 years, it won't die anytime soon.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

🤷‍♂️ I just figured that's what they meant.