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Right to Repair/Ownership

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde "oem" parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Louis Rossman: Android's slow creep towards being closed source continues on - open source elements deprecated (youtube.com)
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I've been using Graphene OS for a while now and it feels like a miracle to have access to the play store yet not be so locked in with Google. Changes like the ones in the video make me worry that this is a flash in the pan and that Google will lock the play store into their Android for that sweet tracking data

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't as big a deal as it seems. Google haven't updated their AOSP Dialer app in years, and custom ROMs have been using their own forks for nearly as long. Furthermore, the ROM devs have been pushing their key improvements to the upstream main repository, only to be rejected. So this ultimately affects manufacturers more than users - the manufacturers either have to make their own Dialer or pay Google for theirs. Or they could potentially use an open source one from the ROM community.

The Messaging app is even less of a concern, given that a core feature of Android is the ability to install 3rd party apps for this (which often have better functionality).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Good points, but I do think the overall trend continues to be a concern