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We need to make a smartphone OS replacing Android and iOS a reality.

After noting that LineageOS, GrapheneOS, and even the Light Phone OS all customize Android to provide a better, more private phone operating system, Jairaj Devadiga wrote:

Google, which acquired Android in 2005, does not like it when you have options. The company has effectively made a prison where it can spy on you, control your user experience, and make more money off you.

To that end, it has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity in the last decade.

In https://www.levernews.com/how-google-ruined-your-phone/

Publicly available at https://jacobin.com/2025/07/google-android-smartphones-open-source

ⓘ Written 2025-08-07 21:24:08

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