As long as your phone doesn’t have Google Play services, it would not apply. With that said, if app developers decide to capitulate and allow this to occur, then there might be a lot fewer apps you can get to work on lineage OS without Google Play services.
The way I see it, lineage and graphene will either have to fork AOSP and become operating systems in their own right instead of in name only. We will have to switch to Linux phones even though they aren’t quite ready yet and deal with the hassle to get them ready, or have to abandon mobile entirely and go back to laptops and desktops and just declare mobile as a dead platform.
From my understanding of the way the android OS works, alternative OSs can’t really just become there on OSs because the would essentially have to replace the entire Linux kernel that Google currently uses, and no phone manufacturer as far as I know releases the drivers for their peripherals either. The first part I think would in theory be solvable, the latter would take a change in the way the phone ecosystem operates. Realistically for the latter to happen, I think we would essentially have to see certain phone manufacturers pop up who are willing to basically create an open platform with a driver offering and that would have to be the target.
How does this affect LineageOS?
As long as your phone doesn’t have Google Play services, it would not apply. With that said, if app developers decide to capitulate and allow this to occur, then there might be a lot fewer apps you can get to work on lineage OS without Google Play services.
The way I see it, lineage and graphene will either have to fork AOSP and become operating systems in their own right instead of in name only. We will have to switch to Linux phones even though they aren’t quite ready yet and deal with the hassle to get them ready, or have to abandon mobile entirely and go back to laptops and desktops and just declare mobile as a dead platform.
From my understanding of the way the android OS works, alternative OSs can’t really just become there on OSs because the would essentially have to replace the entire Linux kernel that Google currently uses, and no phone manufacturer as far as I know releases the drivers for their peripherals either. The first part I think would in theory be solvable, the latter would take a change in the way the phone ecosystem operates. Realistically for the latter to happen, I think we would essentially have to see certain phone manufacturers pop up who are willing to basically create an open platform with a driver offering and that would have to be the target.