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‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Android was an open standard and platform, a LONG time ago. Then Google did a rug pull with all new features of android requiring 100% of their services to function.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No, it wasn't ever. It always belonged to Google who benevolently open sourced parts of it and retains control.

    Safetynet and PlayIntegrity are under Google's control. The PlayStore is Google's. All of the APIs are Google's! Hardware blobs are closed and belong to the manufacturer.

    Just because some of the stuff shows up on GitHub doesn't make it an open platform.

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