Android 11 released

Posted Sep 10, 2020 4:00 UTC (Thu) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Android 11 released by nix
Parent article: Android 11 released

Android at Google started out with a lot of promises and hype from Google about "having root on your phone" and openness, but it has evolved to a point where it somehow manages to have the worst aspects of a closed system - locked bootlockers, critical APIs hidden in proprietary blobs - without providing any of the security and privacy benefits iOS offers for those trade-offs.

It has truly become the worst of all worlds.

Android 11 released

Posted Sep 10, 2020 7:01 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

You can root Android on most phones by using their official bootloader functionality. If you don't want a root, you can side-load an application and give it administrative rights over the phone. It'll give you privileged access to the filesystem and applications, allowing you to have a custom store (for example).

I think Android is actually about the right amount of openness for an environment deployed on 3 billion devices.

Android 11 released

Posted Sep 13, 2020 22:26 UTC (Sun) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

TBH, the launch was paired with the "open handset alliance" which was 1984 speak for the cabal that protects Google's interests. The was never anything besides vaporware on their "commitment to community" or "open source" (the real term is libre software) or other non-sense. Look at how low quality the built in SIP phone of android is, and how noone uses it, because android is made so it can only be built as one system, which prevents it from being modified and hacked on in a useful way.