Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. “[…] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren’t allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like.” says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @NGIZero @murena @microg @delta
https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/
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@rdyoung @breadsmasher “Android is open source”
Well… AOSP is open source.
Google Android is not open source. And the Play Services, Play Store etc. are key services.
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Lineage OS is great and all but at the end of the day most phones have google malware
AOSP is dying as Google has replaced all the core apps with proprietary versions. On top of that the Android SDK has proprietary software included and a EULA
It’s not that easy, Google heavily dictates the development goals of Android. It’s basically developed behind closed doors, and then the source is dumped to the public after each release. Still better than iOS, but nothing like regular Linux distros
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Do you have evidence to backup your statement?
And yet it’s been sliced and diced, features added and removed, distributions created for many devices since its inception by countless developers of varying skill level. It’s a lot more like regular Linux distros than not.
You don’t get to choose the direction Debian takes on what init or sound daemon they ship. The Debian organization does. You might be able to observe their deliberations, but your input is unlikely to be a part of it. In the end the result ends up in the repos. You can take that and change it, just like people have done with Android for many years.