Custom ROMs won’t be an option forever. They are going step by step, just “the tip” first to not hurt too much.
Unless people fully fork android and maintain it, but then google will make sure to break compatibility. Plus less and less phones make it possible to install custom ROMs.
The only way forward is getting rid of them. Like Linux and microsoft. “Ecosystem” will always be a problem as it is with Linux (adobe and other garbage refusing to allow compatibility), but as long as it works well as a phone, like Linux works well as a computer, then it will be fine for a lot of people and software will be made to meet their needs (and a lot of software will work as it is now, like Syncthing does on Sailfish).
It worked with desktops. It took a long time, but it did. It can work with phones if there is enough people backing it.
It will be a bumpy road again but if I can get 100% free of google as I did with microsoft, it will be worthy.
Well, I’m already running a custom ROM.
Non-Android Linux has a mobile software ecosystem problem as of last I checked.
Custom ROMs won’t be an option forever. They are going step by step, just “the tip” first to not hurt too much.
Unless people fully fork android and maintain it, but then google will make sure to break compatibility. Plus less and less phones make it possible to install custom ROMs.
The only way forward is getting rid of them. Like Linux and microsoft. “Ecosystem” will always be a problem as it is with Linux (adobe and other garbage refusing to allow compatibility), but as long as it works well as a phone, like Linux works well as a computer, then it will be fine for a lot of people and software will be made to meet their needs (and a lot of software will work as it is now, like Syncthing does on Sailfish).
It worked with desktops. It took a long time, but it did. It can work with phones if there is enough people backing it.
It will be a bumpy road again but if I can get 100% free of google as I did with microsoft, it will be worthy.