Android has been bad-faith open source for as long as I can remember.
Android is look-but-dont-touch source.
Its massive codebase that requires immense resources to build is not open for negotiation, its existence is to serve Google's whims.<p>Android was already a platform on life support. Google has wielded its authority to dictate how apps should behave such that even 3rd party stores do not stray far from Google's rules. Users of android phones have little hope to run a program from 5 years ago, or to roll back a bad update in an era full of bad updates.
So this is effectively the "Oracle Solaris" moment of Android, but without changing ownership?<p>Nice. While Android was not open source for a long time, at least it's not openwashed anymore.
This title is clickbait. A lot of repos in AOSP were already like this. Calling development private seems misleading because you can still contribute to them.
So how fare we are from telling AI to make us a clone of iOS and include the good bits about Android, make no mistakes?<p>If the stuff the AI companies are promising has any truth in them, Android and iOS or any software should become irrelevant soon.