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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by solarkraft on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:23AM (#23571582)
> I don't see the anti-competitive part there.

Maybe not exactly anti-competitive (but maybe): It requires you to have hundreds of megabytes of Google blobs with root permissions on your device, which some people don't like.

If course this pales in contrast to Apples actions.

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by namibj on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:38AM (#23571663)
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki... claims to support this without blobs. I haven't tested it myself, but some friends seem to have no problems with their de-googled Androids.
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