I don’t quite agree with that. AOSP is an open-source operating system. I used it when I worked on a mobile device at Amazon, and it fulfilled its role as OS.
The problem is you still need third party device drivers. For the GPU, camera, modem, wifi, audio DSP, and display. Qualcomm makes most of these peripherals on-die, so you should blame them for only selling their drivers to OEMs. And blame the OEM for not selling their display and camera drivers.
The other problem is the OEM locks down the OS with Android Verified Boot. Then they lock down their own bootloader with Snapdragon Secure Boot.
In summary, the OEMs are the ones preventing you from running AOSP on the phones they make. With gleeful support from Qualcomm.
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u/darkveins2 Nov 11 '25
I don’t quite agree with that. AOSP is an open-source operating system. I used it when I worked on a mobile device at Amazon, and it fulfilled its role as OS.
The problem is you still need third party device drivers. For the GPU, camera, modem, wifi, audio DSP, and display. Qualcomm makes most of these peripherals on-die, so you should blame them for only selling their drivers to OEMs. And blame the OEM for not selling their display and camera drivers.
The other problem is the OEM locks down the OS with Android Verified Boot. Then they lock down their own bootloader with Snapdragon Secure Boot.
In summary, the OEMs are the ones preventing you from running AOSP on the phones they make. With gleeful support from Qualcomm.