Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)

Re:Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones ... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday December 20, 2020 @07:56PM (#25491068)

I think you misunderstand: All Android phones are Google phones. You had two options to avoid Google's terrible software, iPhone and Windows Mobile.

Everything else outside of the Chinese market has Google Play Services with root access to the system and as controlled by Google's MADA agreement with manufacturers which has already been found illegal in multiple jurisdictions across the globe.

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Re:Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones ... by sellyme on Sunday December 20, 2020 @08:36PM (#25491274)

> All Android phones are Google phones.

Convention dictates that "Google phones" specifically means e.g., Nexus/Pixel devices.

Fortunately, if you're unwilling to distinguish between hardware and software, there's already a very convenient and unambiguous term for mobile devices that run Google's OS. In fact, you just used it in the same sentence!

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