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This antitrust lawsuit Google just lost is good, but man I hope they don't fuck up the punishment.

Android is open source. Each manufacturer has its own flavor of Android. Breaking it off from Google just to stop Google Search being the default engine doesn't make much sense.

As an example, Google owns Android trademarks and some patents and those are used for leverage in search negotiations. The court could just turn them into some type of public domain assets. The leverage goes away, but so does revenues of any potential Android Foundation.
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Tim 1y ago

It boggles my mind thinking could take a product away from a company for ensuring its own products get used on it. Makes zero sense...

The fact that AOSP exists should be enough to say they aren't being over controlling. If they were stopping projects like graphene or calyx, that would be a no go, but they let them exist... Android shouldn't be touched.

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Green Sheep 1y ago

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1820905387257950587 or https://nitter.aosus.link/GrapheneOS/status/1820905387257950587

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Phi 1y ago

Yes, we need to speed up with getting our own open hardware mobile platform 100%.