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Can you elaborate on Android part?

• baybal2 6y ago
  Does it need elaboration? Android too was advertised as a nearly "community driven" OS. Few years down the line, and good sales, and they turn Android into a locked down hell, start to stonewall communications with contributors, throw musings about community governance out of the windows, and break pledge to never block the adblock, nor introduce political censorship on the Android Store.
• CivBase 6y ago
  I believe he's referring to how Android phones have slowly become more and more dependent on the closed-source Google Play Services to provide essential functionality. Despite Android itself being "open source", many Android devices and apps are useless without Google's proprietary services.
  • bogwog 6y ago
    > many Android devices and apps are useless without Google's proprietary services. And not, in fact, open source. Due to the non-GPL license, every single Android device out there is effectively running a closed-source fork of AOSP. I had an old Samsung device automatically install TikTok when I powered it on after sitting in a drawer for years. TikTok didn't even exist when I bought the phone, yet someone with more control over my device than me sold the remote access (they gave themselves, without my consent) to TikTok. Of course this is not a new development, but the proprietary BS and Google's increasingly evil actions over the past decade really highlight how much of a problem that is. Trusting Fuchsia is just repeating that mistake.