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In other words, Android is "open source" too. But I still don't have control over my phone.

• littlestymaar 7y ago
  You can install a plain AOSP and have (almost[1]) full control over your phone though. [1] almost, because every smartphone needs proprietary drivers to run …
  • dmos62 7y ago
    > every smartphone needs proprietary drivers Free phones are slowly popping up https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
    • littlestymaar 7y ago
      The librem looks nice but if I'm not misunderstanding, it's still pretty much vaporware at this point. I sincerely hope it reaches its goals though.
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    Next version of AOSP will have a smaller userspace.
  • mort96 7y ago
    No, you can't. Not when more and more phones ship with locked bootloaders and a smaller and smaller percentage of phones actually work well with some AOSP spin and none of the apps you use work without an unrooted, closed-source-Google-API-infested phone.