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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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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I don't think the issue with phones is the smaller bezels or better displays.

That's not what's ruining them.

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