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pawadu
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Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Andro...
If you think that, how do you define Android?
Synaesthesia
on April 6, 2017
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There's AOSP admire android. AOSP is open source which is some components of the Android system - however a lot of Android is not just AOSP. A lot of it is Google web services and other proprietary stuff.
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You don't have to use "Google Android" to use Android. LineageOS + F-Droid + microG is a very good setup, I use it on my phone.
The real problem is the hardware driver blobs.
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But many of these services are also available on iOS.
Would you still consider them part of Android?
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