The whole Google approach is herding people into a ecosystem where Google controls everything including your data which is mined aggresively to build profiles w

The whole Google approach is herding people into a ecosystem where Google controls everything including your data which is mined aggresively to build profiles which in turn makes total surveillance by state actors a cinch. That they continue to use Linux to enable this dystopian control is the biggest irony. There are all sorts of security and encryption technologies in use which perpetuate an illusion of security but these technologies are used to further their access and control not yours. It's so sad that the android, google and arm ecosystem make x86, Intel and Microsoft look open and positively lovable. If they had followed the Google lock down approach we won't be able to install or use Linux on x86.