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They're free to fork the segment of android that google hasn't locked into their own closed-source ecosystem. Many AOSP applications have been abandoned by goo
by kevinh 13y ago
They're free to fork the segment of android that google hasn't locked into their own closed-source ecosystem.
Many AOSP applications have been abandoned by google in favor of their proprietary applications.
- fidotron 13y agoAnd the reasoning is most of those apps (for better or worse) depend on Google's cloud services, so it makes no sense for them to be in AOSP. There remains nothing stopping you replacing all the Google stuff on Android, including the very parts that make them money. One of the sadder, non obvious, parts of the way mobile has developed is it is becoming synonymous with trivial front ends to cloud services, and not really smart client apps at all.