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 capacity over the last decade.

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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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    431·
    4 months ago

    F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Tried to rely fully on F-droid several years ago. That experiment went just fine until I needed up update the apps. Turns out, there wasn’t a simple one button solution to that. I had to manually update each and every app one by one. Is it any better these days?