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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by moocowtruck on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:18AM (#20000695)
so google is pretty much oracle?
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by enriquto on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:25AM (#20000739)
> so google is pretty much oracle?

No. They play an entirely different league of evil. Google is orders of magnitude more evil. Hint: it is very easy to live without oracle.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by macintux on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:43AM (#20000845)
My only remaining dependency on Google is YouTube, and I could do without that in a pinch, although I’d definitely miss it.
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by acct1771 on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:53AM (#20001461)
What's your gMaps replacement, if any, out of curiosity?
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by aerique on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:56AM (#20002833)
Not the parent poster but I use Here WeGo on Sailfish running on the Android subsystem.

It's ok.

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