Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by sichtlinkair on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:49AM (#26967179)

Interesting perspective

> The core is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself

though I think this is a bit exaggerated, no? AOSP gave me a perfectly fine, modern Android 10 experience

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by fragileone on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:15AM (#26970339)

Not everything translated over exactly well from the original GNU/Linux copypasta, but I do agree here.

I've tested using microG in order to gain some functionality which is missing on pure AOSP builds (eg push notifications) and even with their FOSS minimal implementation of Google Play Services there's still subpar functionality like being unable to use many apps with integrated maps (Uber, Tinder, Google Maps).

Avoiding Google on your Android device results in an undeniably degraded user experience still. They additionally have abandoned many of the AOSP apps like the Calendar and Keyboard, to instead develop and maintain their own branded versions. F-Droid, LineageOS and microG in particular are picking up the slack, but we're still a good way from having the same level of functionality whilst avoiding Google proprietary software.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by sichtlinkair on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:14AM (#26978591)

Aha, totally missed the copypasta

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