wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
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I heard about this too, it's a really rough one. Removing essential mobile phone functionality from a mobile OS' source code makes no sense to me at all
Google wants to maintain control of Android. In theory, Android is open source. However, Google doesn't want the open source bits to be enough to create a competitor.
that is just causing a problem and selling the solution