You can’t convince me this wasn’t Google’s plan from the very beginning.
Open source it, Gain market share,
Push ads/capitalize on data harvesting
Corner OEMs to include their malware
Gradually make it harder for ROM developers to gain access
Lock it down
Profit
They stole tons of features from custom ROMs but never implemented the ability to turn off internet for specific apps so they could push ads and track users.They made turning location “on” a requirement to scan wifi, calling it a security feature. They re-enable “background data” on all apps with an Android update. These are just off the top of my head.
Chromium works towards same goal as well. They never wanted to defeat apple, monopoly, they wanted to become part of the duopoly.
You can’t convince me this wasn’t Google’s plan from the very beginning.
They stole tons of features from custom ROMs but never implemented the ability to turn off internet for specific apps so they could push ads and track users.They made turning location “on” a requirement to scan wifi, calling it a security feature. They re-enable “background data” on all apps with an Android update. These are just off the top of my head.
Chromium works towards same goal as well. They never wanted to defeat apple, monopoly, they wanted to become part of the duopoly.