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Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans (www.androidauthority.com)

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Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But...but.... Isn't AOSP open source? Did someone lie to me? Just restore the functions! Right? Am I right?

Or was Google just exploiting people believing that they were participating to an open source project?

This news serves as perhaps further evidence of AOSP’s reduced significance, as Google seeks to tie more and more previously open-source features behind its own proprietary frameworks and services.

Surprise motherfuckers! \o/

[–] AdmiralShat 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's more of a "started with good intentions" type deal.

They weren't always an evil company. Then, as they became embroiled in corporate greed, they didn't always make phone hardware, meaning the open source OS that Samsung and LG and the other brands were making were shipping with Google products built in.

Now that they have their own foot in the door for hardware, they have more corporate incentive to start reeling in the software from the free section.