Remember that one time Google forced an "Anonymous Coward" to remove the ability to choose alternative search engines in Android?
I can't wait to see how they explain this in the DOJ antitrust lawsuit.
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I expect some of the defense of Android to rest on AOSP and the capability to roll your own ROM, build your own marketplace, etc. Defaults like this will come up but could be explained away because "Android is not a monopoly" and certainly wasn't in 2009. 1/
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AOSP requires tons of dev get it to build/boot at all. Then you have to do tons of dev if you want to use boot security, or to remove even -some- of the proprietary bits.
Combine that with keeping up with updates and it is a full time job.
I tried.
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oh I know. I'm just saying that "we open-source it" will be a Google mantra throughout the lengthy proceedings.
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Probably. Hopefully the opposition points out the countless hours people like and others need to do to even partially de-google devices.
Back in the G1 days it was easy. Back then Google paid people full time to make sure AOSP was solid and easy to build/use.
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That's not an accurate or fair assessment of our work. It is not what we do and what the project provides. GrapheneOS builds privacy and security technologies. AOSP is a solid base for us and we've never had problems building it. You continue to misrepresent the actual issues.
GrapheneOS works well on devices that never shipped with Google apps and services. You completely misrepresent the project and what we actually work on. Suggest reading the content on our site which explains the project. Not sure how you can still so completely misunderstand it.
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We do not provide official support for devices so that people who have those devices can replace the OS to avoid Google apps and services. That isn't the purpose of GrapheneOS. Users are expected to purchase a device to use with it. We evaluate and choose the best devices for it.
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I was not referring to end products like GrapheneOS (which is why I didn't name it) but was specifically referring to all the work you and others do to get each AOSP to work reliably without Google bits so additive work like GrapheneOS is even possible.
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By no means did I mean to imply in any way that anyone used to Google services will find replacements in GrapheneOS.
Was just trying to point out you do a lot of work to get AOSP baselines working on Google hardware so derivative works can even begin.
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