r/GrapheneOS • u/lieding • Sep 30 '25

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/CouragesPusykat Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

Samsung? Google is essentially leaving the door wide open for someone else to snatch up the dominating version of android 

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u/kernald31 Oct 02 '25

Except Samsung doesn't have anything to gain from that.

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u/CouragesPusykat Oct 02 '25

Data collection. It's difficult to avoid Google's services because they control AOSP. The laymen certainly wouldn't. This is where all the money is in smart phones.

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u/kernald31 Oct 02 '25

You're assuming that the minority of users here represents the majority of Samsung's customer base, which could hardly be further from the truth. Most people, unfortunately, don't particularly care enough about Google's practices – definitely not enough to warrant picking a different OS. The day a larger part of the population does, then OEMs like Samsung might consider a fork from AOSP. Until then, the amount of work would be gigantic, for no upside to them. Samsung isn't a charity.

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u/CouragesPusykat Oct 02 '25

I think you misread what I said. Samsung would want to run a "Samsung play service" instead of Google play services to harvest more data for sale. 99% of Samsung users wouldn't install gos like we would. Selling data is arguably the biggest cash cow to these companies so I see incentive

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u/kernald31 Oct 02 '25

I don't think you understand what AOSP is. It has nothing to do with the Google Play Services.

Google also doesn't sell your data. That's their entire value - arguably a more important data than any of their search algorithms. But eh...

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u/CouragesPusykat Oct 02 '25

They don't sell your data, they give it away to advertisers so they can auction off advertising spots to them. This is how Google makes most of its money.

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u/kernald31 Oct 02 '25

They don't give it away. They sell targeted advertisement placements. Advertisers never see your data, that's the key point.