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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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[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Mobile GNU/Linux is getting better, but I think it is 5-10 years out from what's needed. I suppose people need to adopt Desktop first. The nice thing is you can install Android apps including Google Play on it natively, and they appear in your app drawer like a regular app

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What’s wrong with tapless payment with cards?

Nothing, but many users have already migrated to using stored payment information on their phones.

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