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Surely you aren’t talking about Android as “open source”. To a first approximation no one wants a phone running only AOSP without Google’s proprietary parts.
by scarface_74 1y ago
Surely you aren’t talking about Android as “open source”. To a first approximation no one wants a phone running only AOSP without Google’s proprietary parts.
- gjvc 1y agoyou might want to recheck your measurements
- lern_too_spel 1y agoFor definitions of "no one" that include 1 billion people.
- JustExAWS 1y agoSo yes, if I’m willing to go to China and use Chinese OEM customized phones with Chinese apps, I will be golden…
- lern_too_spel 1y agoYou're free to use the same Android that the Chinese OEMs (and Amazon) built their phones on yourself, without traveling to China. It's true that a reasonable definition of "no one" wanted Amazon's phones, but a much more lenient definition has to be used for the Chinese OEMs.
- JustExAWS 1y agoAnd in any other country besides China, how many of the apps that most people use don’t have a dependency on Google Play Services APIs? Google has been moving much of what a western user considers “Android” out of the AOSP code since 2013.
- lern_too_spel 1y agoNo APIs have been moved out of AOSP. Google Play Services is itself built on top of AOSP. If you mean they removed the email client, that's because there are now other open source email clients that are much better.
- scarface_74 11mo agoThese are the APIs that are part of Google Play Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services