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A lot. LineageOS, Amazon's Fire OS, OnePlus' OxygenOS, Android emulation layers and so on are only possible because Android is open source. It sets a low ceilin
by mixedCase 6y ago
A lot. LineageOS, Amazon's Fire OS, OnePlus' OxygenOS, Android emulation layers and so on are only possible because Android is open source. It sets a low ceiling for any anticompetitive practices Google may want to pull off.
Nobody seems to really care too much about ChromeOS niche.
Mainstream users don't care about any of this and just want things to work. Open source allows other people to take something in a better direction when the original project stops "just working".