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> open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure. Yes, but Android? When companies promote OSS products, they becom
by yobbo 4y ago
> open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure.
Yes, but Android? When companies promote OSS products, they become successful.
> totally orthogonal to building "a good product that people want to use"
An OSS product will not end up on shelves with glitzy packaging for people to buy unless some company burns money to do that. It's not a fundamental law and OSS isn't orthogonal to anything.
- surajrmal 4y agoAOSP is not a product and is not really usable by itself. It needs to be combined with Gapps and Google play services to really be considered a product. And I would argue that combination isn't a consumer facing product either. It's a product aimed at OEMs who combine it with their hardware and a few layers of additional hardware integration in order to create a consumer facing product. I know there are open source alternatives that replace many of these proprietary layers but they aren't very popular with the market.