Sameer Samat, president of Android ecosystem at Google, asked a TechRadar journalist why they were using an Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook:

I asked because we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh. This is exactly my feeling. While I still consider Google to be the lesser evil out of all the big tech companies. They have been in freefall in the last decade. Just the amount of telemetries give me shivers.

Also, it will be a license nightmare. As far as I know, Chrome OS is proprietary and actual Android has proper open source license.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Parts of Chrome OS are available, parts aren't. Parts of Android are available, parts aren't. Neither are really Open Source, but both have Open Source parts.

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    Not really as there is not Apple equivalent yo AOSP

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    Google can't kill AOSP as it is under the GPL. They will always have to release the source code. Even if a lot of the apps have been abandoned the core system will still be GPL. I don't see them changing that any time soon as it would mean a total rewrite of the OS from scratch which would be insane.

    Android also is designed to run on lots of different hardware unlike Apple. I don't really see the comparison.

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