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Ok so Google is punished for being more open in the first case? Sounds fishy to me ...
by kohlerm 3y ago
Ok so Google is punished for being more open in the first case? Sounds fishy to me ...
- inlined 3y agoEspecially since Google had always had the AOSP as a reasonable way of demonstrating their commitment to the industry as a whole disjoint from the places where they thought the Google ecosystem provided extra value (which they admittedly require you to take wholesale)
- gleenn 3y agoAOSP has effectively been dead for a long time. You need Google Play services for almost everything now and more and more creeps into the proprietary portion.
- jojobas 3y agoNo you don't. Writing an app to use google services is a choice. There's MicroG for silly apps that require google services, and there's also life without using silly apps that require google services.
- stonogo 3y agoPlease note how you dismiss apps requiring Google Play services as "silly," when most people who use those services use them as part of the hardware root of trust programs for work apps, or other device attestation for banking apps. Putting demeaning adjectives in front of the things you're arguing against isn't a compelling argument, I think you'll find, and "life without" banking and work apps leads to a lower quality of life for a lot of people.
- bofaGuy 3y agoGoogle is running on other hardware, not their own. That is the difference.