Android is open source platform, you don’t need Google for Android.
Android gives you a base system so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel while creating an operating system. All phone manufacturers build on Android to create OS for their mobile.
Googles monopoly is because a lot of things we benifit from Android is cross compatibility of devices from different companies which is facilitated by Google - Play Store, Etc.
This monopoly of Google is not forced but domination of it in Android space since the very beginning.
Anyone can create an OS without Google services but it would be very less useful compared to Android with Google services, because of lack of compatibility.
Using anything that pushes google’s technology is supporting Google. Chromium is pushing Google’s vision on the web. Android of any distribution is pushing Google’s vision on mobile.
There needs to be an alternative to the two major players that don’t help them.
KaiOS (which has a fairly specific reason to exist that doesn’t apply to most iOS or Android users) notwithstanding I don’t see a third competitor gaining any serious traction (traction = apps actually existing = phone actually being usable) this late into the game.
These are the main points according to the article:
Disrupting “super apps” that encompass many different programs and could degrade “iOS stickiness” by making it easier for iPhone users to switch to competing devices
I’d imagine this is about setting standard apps for many different things (for example maps, music) and also allowing these apps the same levels of system access as the Apple apps have (for example allowing Google Maps to display full screen directions on the lock screen during navigation). Also the 30% fee for competing services like Spotify.
Blocking cloud-streaming apps for things like video games that would lower the need for more expensive hardware
This is about Apple blocking game streaming apps from the App Store.
Suppressing the quality of messaging between the iPhone and competing platforms like Android
This is obviously about iMessage and the blue/green bubble “issue”. This is irrelevant where I live as we simply use other messengers, but okay.
Limiting the functionality of third-party smartwatches with its iPhones and making it harder for Apple Watch users to switch from the iPhone due to compatibility issues
Essentially allowing access to more system functionality and integrations with non-Apple smartwatches.
Blocking third-party developers from creating competing digital wallets with tap-to-pay functionality for the iPhone
So the ability to bind the double-click to Apple Pay to other services.
What I hate is that the alternative that they’re switching to is RCS, which puts control of your texting in the hands of your carrier. iMessage is great because you don’t need a phone number, I can send texts to my moms iPad even though she doesn’t have an iPhone.
The messaging bubble issue may seem silly, but could I not open the gates to more unified messaging in general? Like WhatsApp to Signal to iMessage? I would hope there is a greater scope than just the bubble.
Reading on different Apple sites, it’s hilarious. People are acting like they are being sued. Crazy to watch how cult members react. I mean it’s unhealthy but it is what it is.
It’s so strange. I have realized over the last few years that I think I prefer apples stuff to Google or Microsoft but like, they ain’t my family. Just the least bad tech company I can buy certain products from.
These suits will either make the products slightly better or change nothing at all. Why the fuck would any consumer be upset by that???
I’m the same. I prefer apple products generally speaking, but Apple sucks just as much as every other giant asshole company and I don’t like Apple. There’s no ethical consumption in capitalism. Fuck all these companies.
I don’t get the fanboy culture around phone manufacturers. None of them have done anything innovative in a decade. They’re just adding more cameras and trying to make them thinner even though I’m pretty sure most people don’t care about either.
Just got my first phone without a headphone jack, and it’s thicker than my previous phone that had one. But honestly it’s mildly annoying at most. A dongle works, I guess, but it’s certainly weird and seems like an unnecessary omission.
I moved on to Airpods shortly after they came out and honestly I have had 0 desire to use wired headphones with a phone. The Airpods pro sound great for earbuds.
If I want a real super high quality audio experience I’d use a dedicated DAC and AMP because the ones in phones have never been amazing. Plus if I’m out and about there’s probably too much background noise to even appreciate good headphones.
Rapidly advancing capitalist/materialistic brain rot is more of an issue, than people realize. For a lot of people it’s a status symbol. A lot of others have to justify spending copious amounts of cash on a bad product, by bringing others down, who made different choices. At the end of the day, none of it matters whatsoever, because the only winner here is the company who took your money
All did was state fact and correct your erroneous statements. If you need to project your miscomprehensions onto me to make yourself feel better, go ahead. My self-esteem can take it.
No animosity from me. I do think that the allegation was implicit in my comment however. It is, in my opinion, obvious that when you file a lawsuit you are claiming that the law itself has been broken. Clarifying with allegedly seems superfluous.
Beeper gets a lot of credit, I remember hearing the DoJ was investigating apple over iMessage due to them blocking beeper from supporting iMessage on android.
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