Anyone that builds their entire company and/or product around being reliant on a multi-billion/trillion dollar company providing them with their source code for free so you can use it to get around using their services is only setting themselves up for disaster.
If you rely on Google giving you their source code, you need to have a backup plan ready at all times for what to do when Google don’t give you their source code.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 week ago
What should anyone have done different? Not built for one of the largest platforms with the most users?
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Android is so big because the community let them embrace it. Since the beginning the community should have worked in a true open solution. Now it’s really late to try to make a Linux phone
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Luddite. I’ve let AI manage my finances and mortgage for about a month now. Hold on, there’s a knock at the door, some dudes with a big van or something
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Linux would suck on a phone. Sorry it is barely usable on a laptop. We get worse battery life hardware less supported. Sure we put up with it but most people just want stuff to work.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is because the community did not spent too much time optimizing for this goal. This is what I am saying, the open source community should invest more on Linux phone.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
It doesn’t need to be Linux though - AOSP is still open source. Companies like graphebe using it just needed to not depend on Google to provide them the hardware and software to keep their OS viable. It’s entirely on them.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Google start with open source so they can use open source tools and get a lot of work for free.
But they use the famous Elbrace, E tende and Extinguish. See the things they are doing with the web with Chrome.
…wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish