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This will face legal hurdles, especially in the EU and China. It reminds me of the time Microsoft played shell games with Chrome and Firefox and then lost eventually. That being said, it will kickstart a new mobile OS arms race, not necessarily to beat Android but for choices.
The markets authority and antitrust offices are different people than the chat control people, they aren’t a unified organisation, they will probably argue about it.
I’m surprises at how SailfishOS has a limited presence. This could be that moment. HarmonyOS is sick. I’ve seen it in action and it is on another league.
This will face legal hurdles, especially in the EU and China. It reminds me of the time Microsoft played shell games with Chrome and Firefox and then lost eventually. That being said, it will kickstart a new mobile OS arms race, not necessarily to beat Android but for choices.
This will definitely not be challenged in the EU. It’s the whole basis that makes chat control possible on a technical level.
The markets authority and antitrust offices are different people than the chat control people, they aren’t a unified organisation, they will probably argue about it.
HarmonyOS already exists in China as a fork of android, I wonder if something similar may spawn from the EU
I’m surprises at how SailfishOS has a limited presence. This could be that moment. HarmonyOS is sick. I’ve seen it in action and it is on another league.
would love it if some viable linux based alternatives came out of this.
Android can be forked at any time
… except for the binary os blobs, that’ll need to be reverse engineered to run it on… well… any real hardware /s
but these are firmware and drivers from the hardware manufactures and not the OS