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 capacity over the last decade.

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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  • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    banking apps and cash apps

    Unfortunately that’s prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      You just need a window into their world.

      Carry your Linux phone and tether it to an old android, install what you need and turn it off.

      carry two things, like some kind of asshole that carries two things!?

      When I was 19, we all carried cameras and mp3 players around too. It’s hardly a stretch.