• KindnessInfinity
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    1 year ago

    These apps are open source, so a OS developer should be able to forward port the deprecated app into their newer OS release. Kinda fear monger a bit here

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      1 year ago

      Apparently they’ve been doing this for a long time, because Google haven’t been maintaining it. When the forks have submitted improvements upstream they’ve been rejected. LineageOS has been running its own dialer for years, which many ROMs use.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. Interesting fact: I noticed you refer to the aftermarket Operating Systems as Read Only Memorys, which is what R.O.M stands for. The correct way is Operating System, as the storage medium is emmc or SSD on modern phones, which are writeable while a ROM is read only. Think of ROMs like that from a NES cartridge that can’t be rewritten by user.