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no₿ody™ 🧱 2y ago

TIL Android Inc. was acquired by google in 2005 and google still manages it

That’s right, i didn’t know this. Gfy

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Uno 2y ago

Yeah, and original it was just a software for cameras

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Sovereign Matt 2y ago

I don’t believe you. Everyone knows this

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no₿ody™ 🧱 2y ago

I didn’t know! Maybe i did and forgot. But this discredits the android side of android vs iphone a little. Just a tiny bit.

I am pretty sure objective it goes

ios < android < graphene

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Jeff Swann 2y ago

Idk, I'm not sure there is any real security benefit to android over ios at all. In completely default form, android might be worse. Graphene is basically the only better option.

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Sovereign Matt 2y ago

Hey don’t think the new Solana Phone lol

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cryptowolf 2y ago

Android is open source. The google ecosystem is not.

You can use android without google, thats why there are custom roms like LineageOS available for free.

Dont contfuse Android Open Source Project with the official google version.

Still the best usable mobile operating system around in terms of transparency if you use a custom ROM stripped of all the google stuff.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/14hm39/is_android_really_open_source/

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Justin Nakamoto-San ☑️ 2y ago

It's the first Google product that wasn't next-Gen but rather a clone to keep up with iPhone.