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Apple released OS X/Darwin open source, but kept the moneymaking frameworks (cocoa, carbon) closed source. This generated positive PR while keeping the secret s
by Liquix 3y ago
Apple released OS X/Darwin open source, but kept the moneymaking frameworks (cocoa, carbon) closed source. This generated positive PR while keeping the secret sauce needed to ship polished applications under lock and key
Google released Android open source, but then made unlocking bootloaders and flashing devices as difficult as possible for laymen. So they get to point at AOSP and say "open source" but in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in
- dataangel 3y agoThis is just incorrect regarding Google. The phones they actually make, the Pixel ones, have open bootloaders.
- noman-land 3y agoChromium also?
- the_pwner224 3y agoUnlocking and flashing Androids is (in general) much easier today than it was 10 years ago, mostly due to Google's efforts with fastboot and other software infrastructure. Modern Pixels are really easy to hack on. > in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in The vast majority of users are always going to do this, regardless of how easy it is to install a custom OS.