If our goal is the empowerment and greater freedom of people, mobile Linux appears to be a more feasible route to achieve those goals in the long term than AOSP.
It’s hard enough getting some companies to develop Android apps (not to mention the Android watch OS has barely anything) as much as I’d like to see a Linux phone OS catch on, unless there is some kind of Proton-layer for Android thing I just don’t see any companies making apps for it.
I don’t make Android apps because the environment is a treadmill - constantly requiring app updates to run on the newer OSs. I have not (yet) experienced the same forced obsolescence in any of the Linux flavors - apps I wrote 20 years ago still compile and run without mods, just relink to the latest libraries and go.
It’s hard enough getting some companies to develop Android apps (not to mention the Android watch OS has barely anything) as much as I’d like to see a Linux phone OS catch on, unless there is some kind of Proton-layer for Android thing I just don’t see any companies making apps for it.
I don’t make Android apps because the environment is a treadmill - constantly requiring app updates to run on the newer OSs. I have not (yet) experienced the same forced obsolescence in any of the Linux flavors - apps I wrote 20 years ago still compile and run without mods, just relink to the latest libraries and go.
ATL (Android Translation Layer) and Waydroid.