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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 functio

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.