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I've got nothing to do with this project and only know what I read in the linked article but the seemingly obvious reason they'd use Android phones, especially
by georgemcbay 14y ago
I've got nothing to do with this project and only know what I read in the linked article but the seemingly obvious reason they'd use Android phones, especially Nexus phones, is that they run on a nearly fully open source stack (minus some binary drivers), so you can go as deep into the internals as you want without resorting to jailbreaking and/or a lot of reverse engineering.
- tomjakubowski 14y agoWouldn't you still need to root the phone? The stack is definitely more open than on iOS though.
- StuieK 14y agoYeah we do have to root the phones but given the opensource aspirations of the project itself, Android was the most suitable.