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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  • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    7 hours ago

    Unless they get NFC payments working on it and banking apps. It literally will never matter.

    The single most common thing phones are used for at this point outside of entertainment is payments and banking.