I hope some day we'll be able to get rid of Apple-Google smartphone duopoly. Free and open-source, privacy-respecting, hacker-oriented software on PCs has been

I hope some day we'll be able to get rid of Apple-Google smartphone duopoly. Free and open-source, privacy-respecting, hacker-oriented software on PCs has been around basically forever, whereas the situation with (mainstream) smartphones is getting worse and worse each year. Remember being excited with new AOSP features[1], not the "AI-powered", proprietary nonsense Google has been cranking out recently[2]? Remember rooting? [1] - https://www.androidpolice.com/google-io-2022/ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-io-2022/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history