Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement

Re:Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a... by dylan604 on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:30AM (#24470578)

How is anything Android Google free? Is Android its own separate entity not under the Google/Alphabet lineage? This has kept me from seriously considering Android as something I could ever use.

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Re:Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a... by colejohnson66 on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#24471714)

They don’t mean it’s Android with no relation to Google; they mean that it’s Android with the Google parts removed.

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Re:Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a... by dylan604 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:29PM (#24472732)

I guess I'm asking what part of Android is not Google? I get trying to detach apps like GMail, Maps, PlayStore, etc. But if Google created Android, why is it assumed to be okay of doing Googly things?

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Re:Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a... by em-bee on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:19PM (#24473327)

the concern is not code written by google, but code that depends on googles infrastructure, requires a google account, phones home, gives google control over my phone, is not released under a FOSS license (so i can't change it), anything that violates the users privacy...

so what /e/ is doing is essentially an audit of android, and an attempt to remove everything that is of concern.

it's a major project, and it's not complete. work in progress.

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Re:Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a... by gowld on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#24475789)

Android core (AOSP) is Apache-licensed free open source.

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