Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
by bubblethink on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:44AM
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The problem with android on the whole is that it got good enough, quick enough that it prevented any meaningfully open and consumer friendly alternatives to emerge. Safety net is a part of the play services, which on the whole is opaque and binary. So not much is new there.
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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
by taneq on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:01AM
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Also it wore the skin of a free, open platform pretty well for quite a long while. It was only after it got popular that Google started subverting that and turning it into the creature it currently is.