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Comment by netdevphoenix

4 days ago

I wonder what this means for the mobile ecosystem (talking about essential apps whose usage requires a smartphone : digital only banks, whatsapp, etc). The sitation is such that if you need to use any of the above (except whatsapp which has backward compatibility going all the way back to android 6), you pretty much are required to buy a new phone every 2-5 years which is wild. Making Android Os available somewhere could potentially be another avenue to access Android apps.

Yes, I know about waydroid and similar, but it is very slow and requires you to have relatively powerful machine.

Of course, ideally, a Proton like layer would be best