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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Still use my Windows Phones with Windows 10 Mobile as my daily drivers. Best OS to date.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

one of the best products Microsoft ever produced. I absolutely LOVED my old Lumia. great phone, the OS was perfect, just an awesome all around phone. wish I still had it.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 6 points 4 days ago

I loved my Lumia 1520, but it just doesn't hold a candle to a modern Android phone with LineageOS installed. Both in functionality and in privacy.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, even if they got it right and more popular, it would have enshittified quick.