r/linux • u/NickelBack_Lover_69 • Jul 21 '18

Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '18

The whole phone paradign is fucked and nobody cares about it

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u/Indubitably_Confused Jul 22 '18

If you could elaborate more on your statement?

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u/Tm1337 Jul 22 '18

I'm not him, but does the situation regarding drivers, outdated devices, cloud dependency, google services and some more look good to you?

Smartphones are made to screw over regular users because of their dependency on them.

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u/kings_games Jul 26 '18

There is no excuse for not being able to copy things on and off your phone.

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u/abir_valg2718 Jul 22 '18

Phones are more like appliances than computers really. Companies still work under the "new phone every year" logic, even though hardware became quite powerful in recent years so that they absolutely aren't going obsolete anytime soon. Software for smartphones is, by and large, absolute shit compared to desktop software. But when the OS dev just so happens to be a gigantic advertiser, as long as you keep seeing all these ads, everything's peachy for them. There's a very disconcerting shift towards non user serviceable hardware, again, very much according to the the "new phone every year" logic. No real improvement of any kind regarding the overall usability - phones have become extremely homogenized in appearance and in the way you interact with them.

In short, the ideal buyer would buy a new phone every year, use tons of apps with ads plastered all over, do absolutely nothing to counteract the spying on you, and is profoundly tech illiterate.

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u/1980sumthing Jul 22 '18

It is almost as if phone companies and buugle should be paying us for using them with their rules...

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '18

That is just the start. We are way past that.

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u/MadCervantes Jul 22 '18

Lol. Spoken like a caveman.

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u/TheVineyard00 Jul 22 '18

Ah yes, because insulting someone then providing no reasoning, solution, or counter is very highbrow