• Lukas Murch
    link
    fedilink
    English
    15112 days ago

    de-Googled android sounds even better. The story is cooler than the title!

    • Ulrich
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3512 days ago

      I mean they just replace Google with their own Chinese data-mining services so, no, not cool.

      • @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1212 days ago

        Exactly what happened with Indonesian release of Huawei.

        Also, more ads everywhere. Even your lock screen.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1011 days ago

        No no no, it’s not Chinese data mining.

        it’s just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3312 days ago

      de-Googled android sounds even better.

      They are already degoogled for the Chinese market. What the Chinese Android variants to not have is a shared replacement for Play Services and a shared app store because everyone is doing their own thing for maps API, payment, …

    • _cryptagion [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1312 days ago

      When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick.”

      —Mikhail Bakunin

    • Pup Biru
      link
      fedilink
      English
      412 days ago

      a duopoly is better than a monopoly but 3 platforms would be better

        • @jnod4@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          411 days ago

          Just read for a second about intel’s history on anti competition practices eg they would ban stores from carrying out amd cpus in my country in Europe

          • @3laws@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            1
            edit-2
            11 days ago

            Oh yeah, I’m not saying they’re the good guys at all. But we need a 3rd player on the GPU market.