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You think this would be good for Android users? What do you see happening to Android if Google were broken up?
by freedomben 2y ago
You think this would be good for Android users? What do you see happening to Android if Google were broken up?
- fwip 2y agoLots of possibilities. One is that Android charges a per-device* fee to the phone manufacturers to license the OS, similar to Windows. *with the usual hijinks where a high-end device requires a bigger license fee than a budget phone.
- freedomben 2y agoWouldn't that essentially mandate the discontinuation of AOSP? That seems like a massive loss to humanity, and certainly to the open source world. I suppose it's possible that GAPPS would become licensed but the OS for free, though I could see the bean counters having a big problem with that.