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by anyzen 2615 days ago
In other words, Android is "open source" too. But I still don't have control over my phone.
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littlestymaar 2615 days ago
You can install a plain AOSP and have (almost[1]) full control over your phone though.

[1] almost, because every smartphone needs proprietary drivers to run …

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dmos62 2615 days ago
> every smartphone needs proprietary drivers

Free phones are slowly popping up https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

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littlestymaar 2614 days ago
The librem looks nice but if I'm not misunderstanding, it's still pretty much vaporware at this point. I sincerely hope it reaches its goals though.
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mort96 2614 days ago
No, you can't. Not when more and more phones ship with locked bootloaders and a smaller and smaller percentage of phones actually work well with some AOSP spin and none of the apps you use work without an unrooted, closed-source-Google-API-infested phone.
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pjmlp 2614 days ago
Next version of AOSP will have a smaller userspace.
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