We don't understand why these changes were made and it's a major turn in the wrong direction. Google is in the process of losing multiple antitrust cases in the US. Android and Chrome being split into separate companies has been requested by the DOJ. They may be preparing for it.
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We're hard at work on getting the port to Android 16 done but there's a large amount of additional work we weren't expecting. It can be expected to take longer than our usual ports due to the conscription issue combined with this. It's not good, but we have to deal with it.
As a satisfied GrapheneOS user, you have my backing 👍
Google never should have been allowed to take over android.
Same with YouTube, and everything else that google are ruining.
When google removed "don't be evil" from their code of ethics the company should have been dissolved then and there rather than allowed to become an evil monopoly that makes life harder for normal people