Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?

Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware? by ChuckNorris89 on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:38PM (#36540983)

>Microsoft figured out how to license an OS to third party OEMs and still allow end users to update their hardware without depending on the vendor for literally decades.

You're cluelessly comparing apples to oranges. ARM smartphones, for better and for worse, are not like X86 PCs.

ARM SBCs which is what all smartphones are, are completely different than X86 PCs which have more open standards when it comes to booting and driver support, versus ARM where it's mostly proprietary blobs different from vendor to vendor.

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Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware? by scarface_74 on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:41PM (#36541949)

The standards are only “open” because Windows browbeat OEMs decades ago to conform to its requirements via WINHEC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Hardware_Engineering...

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