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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.
Originally published on The Lever, but that one asks you to sign up.
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Someone needs to break the duopoly. HarmonyOS isn’t open source but I’m hoping it will force Google and others to behave.
i guess i’ll have to try lineageOS instead.
No wonder. A shame that people didn’t want to support neither Firefox OS or other free Mobile OS…
They never did make a good smartphone. Android has always been garbage on top of garbage.
And thus highlights the hypocrisy of their “let’s all be friends” messaging around getting Apple to adopt RCS; Google holds the keys to integrating RCS in messaging apps on Android. Last I heard they only granted access to Samsung.
I’d be willing to excuse a mobile OS for being partially or completely proprietary if it was good. But neither Android nor iOS are.
The last time I checked, a Linux smartphone was in the works, but still had quite a ways yet to go . . .
The year of the linux phone is almost upon us…
I have been “using” a Pinephone for quite awhile now. However, since it runs Linux, it doesn’t actually work. I have invested many hours and even basic shit like calling does not work 100% of the time, let alone more “complicated” things like a working email client. It just isn’t worth it. I will stick with my Windows 10 Mobile phones for now.
