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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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Play Store is truly vile to use. It just feels gross and scammy and like a mine field of low quality slop and scam apps.

    iOS isn’t great either but it at least feels a whole lot better. The iOS store needs the ability to report fraid which it doesn’t sort until you install an app.

    • redhat421@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      My experience with the iOS app store years ago was worse than Android. Searching for apps that were not chock full of spam was useless. I had to research the apps outside of the store then find direct links to them due to clones with the same names.

      I have no idea why Apple and Google allow so much hot garbage in their app stores.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      The iOS store needs the ability to report fraid which it doesn’t sort until you install an app.

      That’s probably to reduce brigading? Android and iOS are infested with all sorts of fraduelnt marketing techniques like fake reviews, and mass fraud reporting for competition sounds like another.