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Isn't AOSP fully open source? What is the point of the PinePhone over an Android phone running pure AOSP?
by dheera 6y ago
Isn't AOSP fully open source? What is the point of the PinePhone over an Android phone running pure AOSP?
- megous 6y agoThe point is that it's not Android, so you can run whatever you can make run on mainline Linux on PinePhone, with fully supported kernel always available in uptodate state, and without any Android abstractions that may or may not limit what you can do.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoEven AOSP hardcodes some reliance on Google servers. It is open source, but not independent of this dominant corporation as many privacy advocates would like.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoYou're still relying on closed source drivers for the vast majority of devices using AOSP, that's pretty far from "fully open source".