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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by heavyset_go on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:53PM (#25095520)
Maemo was great, and so was WebOS in the Pre days.

App distribution was also better on both platforms. Maemo used apt under the hood, and Preware[1] was phenomenal. These days the two vendors that own 99.4% of the mobile OS market[2] don't want to let you install apps unless they can get a 30% cut.

[1] https://webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by megablast on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:51PM (#25096758)
> don't want to let you install apps unless they can get a 30% cut.

They both allow free apps.

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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by heavyset_go on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:22PM (#25098232)
Depends on your definition of free. GPL apps are banned in Apple's App Store.
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