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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well not that shocked.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Neither am I. It's just sad...

this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025

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