Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.
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Those apps are installed in the squashfs image. Such images are write once, read many and thus they can’t be mutated at runtime.
I know, and that’s exactly my point. They used to be in the user space, now they are in the system partition. They CHOSE to do this.
Well who made the decision to put non-system apps in the system partition?