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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)

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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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[-] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

At the moment, my hope is to be able to land a Harmony NextOS phone soon. I'd just as soon cough up data to the Chinese as 5-Eyes and Google.

[-] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Honestly, not a bad idea. If Google breaks custom ROMs I might just switch to Huawei 🤷

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