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Android is becoming less and less open source by the minute. Google used the opensourcedness as a trojan horse to get the OEMs, but now it's pulling it away.
by glogla 11y ago
Android is becoming less and less open source by the minute. Google used the opensourcedness as a trojan horse to get the OEMs, but now it's pulling it away.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIgnore that: Google had to rein shitty OEMs in because they were trashing the brand as bad as OEMs screwed Windows. Bad OOBE, inconsistent, buggy, etc. Using GApps as a carrot/stick is something they should have had from the beginning. There may be other reasons, but the QA aspect is enough that Google would have to hit the OEMs, even if Google wanted to promote open source.