selling android or breaking it up would be terrible since you just go back to each manufacturer making their own flavor with no updates or compatability.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

Disagree, you might be right in the short term, but long term competition like that only benefits the customer.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I used to believe this, before google turned evil. Right now I'd take 5 shitty flavours than the pure shit google is doing. They have turned into a vile corporation that needs to be cut down

[–] amelore@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

It'd be good for Android to be mostly its base, the Android Open Source Project. Over the years Google put more and more things in the proprietary part of Android (Google Play Services) instead of AOSP.

Depends on who takes over whether that gets better of course. If they also put too much in Play Services, or ask the manufacturers for a high fee, yes it's possible we go back to more oem flavours.