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  • FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    Yeah Android is Linux. But Manufactures are limiting it so hard that it is sometimes nearly impossible to get a custom ROM on the phone.

    • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Yes. The openess of the operating system is meaningless if the phone’s firmware isn’t open.

      • giggling_engine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        It’s open source so that anyone can manufacture a phone for it (good for business), not so you could install whatever you want on the hardware (bad for business)…

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yeah but unfortunately with Android it’s what Google wants and not what the end-user wants. That’s why Linux itself is very important, the user gets to decide what they want to do with it.

    • FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The restricted access to the obb folder is not a manufacturer related limitiation. This limitation imposed by Android 12 or 11 (im not sure) and newer.