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The problem with android on the whole is that it got good enough, quick enough that it prevented any meaningfully open and consumer friendly alternatives to eme
by bubblethink 9y ago
The problem with android on the whole is that it got good enough, quick enough that it prevented any meaningfully open and consumer friendly alternatives to emerge. Safety net is a part of the play services, which on the whole is opaque and binary. So not much is new there.
- taneq 9y agoAlso it wore the skin of a free, open platform pretty well for quite a long while. It was only after it got popular that Google started subverting that and turning it into the creature it currently is.