: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

https://murena.com/

https://www.punkt.ch/

https://volla.online/en

https://jolla.com/

https://furilabs.com/

https://puri.sm/

https://pine64.org/

https://store.fxtec.com/

Quick reminder that starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/10/29/keep-android-open-movement-fights-google-dev-requirement/1470903

Addition:

Several of these OSes, including Sailfish, FuriOS, Mobian, and postmarketOS are all pure Linux OSs. They’re not derived from Android, but they can all run an Android VM or container, and so allow you to install and use Android apps.

  • Mateoto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    All of those companies should work together to create one Linux-based OS.

    Majority on your list are using a de-googled Android OS or have some Linux based alternative as an offer. Issue with Linux is: it’s amazing, yet still far away from mass adoption.

    To get there we have to create European based open OS that everyone adopts for their non-us tech phones. With popularity and distribution more major apps will be available directly and not through work arounds (e.g. open app stores, etc). It’s also a huge f*** you to American oligarchs if Europen tech companies are coming together to show their strength.

    • randomname@scribe.disroot.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I fully agree, but there is already Ubuntu Touch. It’s a great mobile OS imo, but it indeed lacks mass adoption as you say, and so you may miss some apps.