Post #1927126
2026-04-23 14:12 UTC
@tpaau17db @gael Ok let's be more specific.
I claim "they invented nothing when they released Android".
They may have invented things later.
Regarding whether it was a move to buy the market: tell me what other product they gave as an opensource project for free for people to make money from?
Finally, I do agree with you that proposing a moving fork of Android makes it hard to say you don't need them.
As an /e/os user, I'd rather stop having new features than depending on Google updates.
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@tpaau17db@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 15:30
@matthieu @gael Google created Chromium, Kubernetes, Go, the Material Design language, and several open weight LLMs and at least one fully open LLM IIRC. Just a few projects I'm aware of. As for Android updates, you can't just "stop having new features". If you refuse to update your device, your apps would eventually stop working, not to mention the security risk of not applying critical security patches to your device as they're discovered, making /e/ even more insecure than it already is.