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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)

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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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[–] clb92@feddit.dk 8 points 1 day ago

I read the headline as "[Google Keep]'s making smartphones worse", and wondered how a single note app could make them worse.