3 ms·

So it's not open.

• stickfigure 8y ago
  It's not that complicated. The Google apps and the app store are not open. Everything else is.
  • genericid 8y ago
    Google has abandoned most AOSP apps. It has moved large parts of the API into Play Services. Android is not open, what is open is merely an incompatible fragment of an OS.
  • pas 8y ago
    Google Apps Agreement prohibits you from enjoying the openness of that everything else. And now the EU Commission thinks that this is an unfair (due to market share) agreement, because it prevents competition. (Which is trivially does, since no OEM can start making and marketing and selling a competitor.)