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Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why) (techlore.tv)
submitted 1 week ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Fuck Google with a stiff wire brush.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the issue is new hardware and google starting to close source android, so that Graphene devs don't have the open source to work with. They'll probably get binary blobs

[–] other8026@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's my understanding that the changes that were made didn't make things more or less proprietary. Some drivers are still open source, others are still closed source. The device trees mostly have other things in them like configuration files and stuff like that.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

It sounds OK for now, but it seems Google is on a path of closing things up like Apple.