Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

• ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a fork of android? Is that meant to be a “gotcha” or something?

  My point is, this is the last time I let google control my phone.

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• SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I imagine since it’s not an official product of Google’s, it can’t legally be called “Android.” As such it’s something that is not Android, but is highly compatible with it since both are rooted in the AOSP.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Legally? Maybe not.

    But Col Sanders left KFC after selling a business he created with his own secret reciepe. Then after he sold it, he watched the new owners use his image to sell an inferior chicken product.

    So he started up another new chicken resteraunt using the original reciepe. Legally he couldn’t call it KFC, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was the original KFC reciepe.

    Hows that phrase go? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

    Call things whatever word you want, it’s still the same thing in the end.

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The point that is clearly not sinking into your wired-to-argue-for-no-reason brain, is that it gets rid of the shit that Google is fucking with. Which is what they were concerned about, not the underlying structure of the OS being offensive to them.

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      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ok, not OP but also wired-to-argue-for-no-reason :

        People present graphene as some independent project that throws the middle finger to Google.

        In reality Google could very easily stop tolerating the sandboxed playstore and require them to follow the same “certification” as the other.

        Sure graphene could still ship but without the playstore that will be a very different experience. You can roll with F-Droid etc but your choice of apps would be very limited.

        Basically, I just wanted to point out that graphene is definitely working with the permission of Google and google could very well sabotage the project in a few dumb requirements.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yes but also no.

  google influenced, but not google controlled anymore.

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