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Re:Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for us... by WastingMyTime89 on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:16AM (#29275633)
AOSP is not Android. What Google distributes to OEMs and its direct customers is not AOSP. It is AOSP and the different Play Services including the Play Store and the Google applications with contracts mandating that they have to be provided to customers.

If you think people talk about AOSP when they talk about Android, you are always going to miss the point of these conversations.

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Re:Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for us... by schadara on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:36AM (#29279020)
From the link posted above parent: https://dontkillmyapp.com

> Unfortunately, vendors (e.g. Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus or even Samsung…) did not seem to catch that ball and they all have their own battery savers, usually very poorly written, saving battery only superficially, with side effects.

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Re:Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for us... by WastingMyTime89 on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:54AM (#29279273)
Heck, I was following the discussion regarding the notification system and how you couldn’t really do without and thought the link was actually relevant to the discussion without checking.

My apologies to NGRhodes, the link does indeed refer to an issue with OEM and not what Google supplies. I don’t really see what it has to do with the topic we were discussing however.

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