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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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide

I wouldn't be so sure. There's a vested interest in NOT shipping them outside the EU. It's called planned obsolescence. Just looks at Macs and OCLP. It's so easy to keep older Macs updated that it's actually able to be done by some random developers in their free time (not to trivialize this effort, just to say that it would be extremely trivial for Apple as the developer of the OS and one of the most profitable companies in the world to do it). And yet Apple does not ship these updates to them. Why? Because they want you to buy new shit and they know not doing so will render them virtually useless in a short time.

I know it seems like I'm being mean in this comment

You are just being mean and extremely rude. It's completely unnecessary and I've done absolutely nothing to deserve such language. You are actively making this community shittier.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Be rude, someone is rude to you back. Boo hoo.

Trying to bait people into absolutely pointless arguments makes the community shittier.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -3 points 2 days ago

I wasn't being rude. That was only you. And since you continue to do so, you can have this argument with yourself. Goodbye.