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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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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not true, it can be bought in the US at Murena's website.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Cool! Last tine I checked out wasn't there. Must have been added recently.

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