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 capacity over the last decade.

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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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    Play Store is truly vile to use. It just feels gross and scammy and like a mine field of low quality slop and scam apps.

    iOS isn’t great either but it at least feels a whole lot better. The iOS store needs the ability to report fraid which it doesn’t sort until you install an app.

    • redhat421@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      My experience with the iOS app store years ago was worse than Android. Searching for apps that were not chock full of spam was useless. I had to research the apps outside of the store then find direct links to them due to clones with the same names.

      I have no idea why Apple and Google allow so much hot garbage in their app stores.