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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is unenforceable really. Android is a monolithic OS, it's very architecture would have to be reengineered, and then phone manufacturers would have to design their system drivers to be independent and distributable.

Windows is modular, this comes from the standard BIOS that came out of the bios wars in the 80's. Having a standard hardware interface enables this.

Phones don't have this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No it's not, just mandate unlocked or user-unlockable bootloaders, the open source Android dev community will do the rest. There would be degoogled custom ROMs and full linux (eg Ubuntu touch, postmarketOS, etc.) ports for every reasonably popular device within months.