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Android is not exactly open, and Google Play Services is not FOSS. Its games are also mostly addictive micro-transaction-ridden trash.
by Siira 5y ago
Android is not exactly open, and Google Play Services is not FOSS. Its games are also mostly addictive micro-transaction-ridden trash.
- rbanffy 5y agoThe parts that aren't open source are the google-specific pieces. Amazon has a thriving ecosystem (of mostly addictive micro-transaction-ridden trash) on top of their FireOS, which is mostly Android with the Google parts replaced with Amazon parts. Still, Blackberry managed to make it easy to repackage Android (2.x) software to run on their QNX-based OS and there have been multiple demonstrations of Android software running on Linux with a relatively thin API layer. There's at least one commercial, IIRC, tool that does that for Windows.
- nottorp 5y ago> Its games are also mostly addictive micro-transaction-ridden trash. Yeah, I'm not sure we should call the mobile crap "games".
- rbanffy 5y agoAny system with a low barrier to entry will be flooded by games that are cheap to develop and quickly recover the investment. There are good games, but the platform is generally much less capable than either a desktop PC with a beefy GPU or a console.
- nottorp 5y agoEh, don't blame the platform's power for IAPs.