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Is Google really going to cut throats of ALL the Open Source world? (feddit.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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So we have these regular announcements like https://lemmy.world/post/48341079

The app stores listed there are only from the big hardware vendors. Not a single mention out of the Open Source world. I guess ut means all these developers were reasonable enough not to play along.

What do you think is going to happen? Is Google really going to cut them all down?

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Eh, it's most of the world? Add apple to it, and it's 99% of the world

I wouldn't call that annoying, I would call that attempted annihilation

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Mobile phones, sure, and they are important. But I'm typing on a Debian laptop right now. Not a phone. Phones aren't the whole world.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There are about 6 billion smartphone users and close to 8 billion smartphones in 2026. Meanwhile, there are about 2 billion pcs in use in 2025. Smartphones aren't the whole world, but they are most of it.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    It occurs to me that everyone using phones might be why the quality of Lemmy posts is so low. It's too big a hassle for people to write anything informative through the phone keyboard, so they post a youtube link instead.

    I hope we start getting more Graphene and similar phones but I also see some benefits to adding a little friction to using them on text-heavy sites.

    And yeah, 6 billion phones users, but most of them don't give a crap about source code. So they're not really affected.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This affects much more than Lemmy, and frankly the screen keyboard is only a little slower for me than a keyboard (the keyboard is way more convenient, though). Having an app that reduces friction for crafting Lemmy posts certainly helps.

    And I would love for more open and secure smartphone OSes to be available, Graphene or otherwise.

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