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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JairajDevadiga@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Linux phones will hopefully fix that soon(ish)

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

It's gonna be the year of the Linux phone, I can feel it!

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

It's the year of the Linux phone!

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the ecosystem is so weak at this time, So maybe in the future it will improve?
Ik you can run Android apps via a container or smth

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PostmarketOS using Waydroid for the neccessary apps, anyone has experience to share?