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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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    EU only

    Ebay it is. Bands are what matter. If it picks up Tmobile, Tello and the like, who cares who’s market it’s for?

    But really, for me, it’s still Android. It’s just a band-aid on the bigger problem of reliance on Google.

    • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Well AT&T banned the (better) international models from their network a while back. They work fine. Just banned.