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Oh, that’s what you mean. Ok, so every time I mention I have an iPhone because a. I value my privacy and b. I try not to support companies that actively harm the internet, someone says “but Android is open source”, as if merely having a few open source components means that Android is better in any way than any other OS.
In this instance, Google is not only making the internet worse, they’re doing it in a way that requires their own closed source libraries to even access a huge portion of the internet. This further makes any functional Android OS closed source.
The most ridiculous thing is that iOS is almost as open source as Android is. There are very few components of an Android based OS that are open source where the equivalent in iOS is not open source.
Also, hey, thanks for calling me an idiot. ;)
Yeah I don't have experience with people really simping for android let alone claiming it's meaningfully open source. The most I've seen is saying it's not nearly as closed off as iOS which is just a fact. And I will say that as well because it's a fact. But that has almost nothing to do with the OSS aspect. Or privacy. So yeah I still don't quite get your point of inserting this here.