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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And thus highlights the hypocrisy of their "let's all be friends" messaging around getting Apple to adopt RCS; Google holds the keys to integrating RCS in messaging apps on Android. Last I heard they only granted access to Samsung.

I'd be willing to excuse a mobile OS for being partially or completely proprietary if it was good. But neither Android nor iOS are.

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

    RCS is a really nice thing in principle, because SMS/MMS infrastructure is just awfully outdated from security standpoint.

    Though, replacing SMS/MMS infrastructure which is internetless yet cross-carrier by making it a internet-first and tied to a single meta-carrier under the hood kind of defeats the purpose overall. There was an attempt to build an independent carrier-deployable implementation of RCS, yet it turned out to be bought off by Google :(

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