• rdyoung@lemmy.world
    62·
    9 months ago

    Android is open source and this post is full of shit. Apple is a company that makes phones and the os that runs on them. Android is used by Google for the pixel line and the nexus line before it but anyone can fork android and make it their own, make it run on any device that supports it, etc.

    • Hexagon@feddit.it
      81·
      9 months ago

      It’s not that easy, Google heavily dictates the development goals of Android. It’s basically developed behind closed doors, and then the source is dumped to the public after each release. Still better than iOS, but nothing like regular Linux distros

      • Avid Amoeba
        22·
        9 months ago

        And yet it’s been sliced and diced, features added and removed, distributions created for many devices since its inception by countless developers of varying skill level. It’s a lot more like regular Linux distros than not.

        You don’t get to choose the direction Debian takes on what init or sound daemon they ship. The Debian organization does. You might be able to observe their deliberations, but your input is unlikely to be a part of it. In the end the result ends up in the repos. You can take that and change it, just like people have done with Android for many years.

      • rdyoung@lemmy.world
        13·
        9 months ago

        Nowhere near as much as you think. And yet another person who has no idea how any of this actually works and has been working for like 20 years now.

        Why, oh why do I try to educate you lot on shit like this? I might as well just stick my hand in a woodchipper.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      AOSP is dying as Google has replaced all the core apps with proprietary versions. On top of that the Android SDK has proprietary software included and a EULA

      • rdyoung@lemmy.world
        32·
        9 months ago

        Yes and no.

        It’s clear that no one here actually understands how this stuff works so I’m done. But I will say this. Google only controls so much. Another large player or enough smaller developers working together could change the direction. And no, you don’t really need play services, play store, etc. There are alts like f-Droid and see my earlier sentence.