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This is literally what Apple does and HN goes gaga over it. Literally only first party core services are allowed and given special privileges.

• sparkie 6y ago
  Yeah, I wouldn't touch an Apple product either. I get your point that people expect differently from Google, but Google brought that upon themselves by marketing Android as an open source alternative to iOS. Now they've got the market share and developers, they're no longer interested in marketing it this way and are now apparently more interested in cementing the walled garden. The battery issue is a valid concern, but I don't buy that this policy is purely to fix that problem. They took the opportunity to make sure people are passing all of their data through Google services in order to have full functionality on their devices.
  • mav3rick 6y ago
    I'd rather have good battery than random HN flame bait. 99% of users will too.
  • mav3rick 6y ago
    And Android is open source. I'm sure you can Google the URL. The same can't be said about Apple. Do you see the iOS source anywhere ?
• brokenmachine 6y ago
  Apple is routinely bashed around here, and rightly so.