Makes me curious if they think their monopoly or whatever they were called cases making them split their browser are going to go though. If you are going to have to sell parts of the company, now would be the time to hammer home any last minute bad things that would make the companies more profitable. Shows higher income for the sale, and gets it out of the way so the new purchaser doesn’t look like the ones who did it, but rather the ones who will make announcements on how they will review things to make them better for the user base.
Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software
candyman337@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThat’s what Android was and they keep trying to undo that any way they can
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I disagree. Google has always been a thinly veiled Microsoft. A wolf in sheeps clothing. They embrace, extend, extinguish. It’s the same thing.
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 2 weeks ago
All corporations suck fucking donkey dick because consumers are morons.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
We need a new one that isn’t made by a for-profit company that only was good to get total market saturation before flipping the enshittification switch to maximize those profits.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
why do we need a new one? can’t android be salvaged? lots of things have been solved already in a way that makes a relatively good foundation.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All the non-Google entities that build stuff on Android need to start banding together instead of siloing themselves. If AOSP is being closed, they need to create a non-profit replacement for it.
amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can’t use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life…
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.
Then I guess it's possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can't say I'm using Android for the great UX - I'm using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can't use them an Android any more I'm switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
right! I never understood why isn’t there more cooperation between different foss roms, at least sharing patches and coordinating some work.