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Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. "[...] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren't allowed, and moderate what our (waag.social)
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Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. "[...] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren't allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like." says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @NGIZero @murena @microg @delta

https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's not that easy, Google heavily dictates the development goals of Android. It's basically developed behind closed doors, and then the source is dumped to the public after each release. Still better than iOS, but nothing like regular Linux distros

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

And yet it's been sliced and diced, features added and removed, distributions created for many devices since its inception by countless developers of varying skill level. It's a lot more like regular Linux distros than not.

You don't get to choose the direction Debian takes on what init or sound daemon they ship. The Debian organization does. You might be able to observe their deliberations, but your input is unlikely to be a part of it. In the end the result ends up in the repos. You can take that and change it, just like people have done with Android for many years.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere near as much as you think. And yet another person who has no idea how any of this actually works and has been working for like 20 years now.

Why, oh why do I try to educate you lot on shit like this? I might as well just stick my hand in a woodchipper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Do you have evidence to backup your statement?