Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    422·
    1 day ago

    F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      13 hours ago

      Unfortunately many of the apps needed just to exist as a member of society are only available in the Play Store.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          0·
          1 hour ago

          Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. And even when it does, it still requires Google’s spyware to be installed on your device.

          • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            6 minutes ago

            Only certain apps require play services, aurora store itself requires no play services. Just the potential for the apps you are trying to use. I’ve used F-Droid and aurora for years.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      121·
      1 day ago

      Tried to rely fully on F-droid several years ago. That experiment went just fine until I needed up update the apps. Turns out, there wasn’t a simple one button solution to that. I had to manually update each and every app one by one. Is it any better these days?