Android runs millions of devices worldwide, but could consumers have reaped the rewards of a more open Android system?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/17508868

When Google, along with a consortium of other companies, announced the open-source operating system we call Android way back in 2007, the world was paying attention. The iPhone had launched the same year, and the entire mobile space was wary of the rush of excitement around the admittedly revolutionary device. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) was born, and within a few years Android swallowed up market share with phones of all shapes and sizes from manufacturers all over the globe. Android eventually found its way into TVs, fridges, washing machines, cars, and the in-flight entertainment system of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    5 months ago

    AOSP is basically unusable by itself now.

    Ancient applications that were abandoned long ago, hardware incompatibility, outdated drivers, lots of stuff from shifted to Play Services that are missing or borked in AOSP now, etc.

    Shit, most of the time notifications don’t even work.

    Google got what they wanted from AOSP. They bought it, they got everyone onto it. And then they started killing it and shifting everybody to use play services and be more beholden to Google. You can never trust big tech.