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That's trivially provable as false.

It's Economist, their reporting in Europe was always very heavily biased and not very well researched.

Or maybe there's a reason why the mainline Android OEMs don't ship that allocator by default.

Did TV, VCR, soundbar, monitor, laptop manufacturers end up stop manufacturing their devices because they had to talk to each other with a compatible HDMI format? And the user could swap out the TV device that played media from Apple TV?

Where do you get those silly ideas?

Those are manually optimized per arch, aren't they?

That would then go against the wishes of people here for Google to be broken up and Android to self-fund, no? ;)

Google is funding Android fully from Play Store, since previous CFO the ad revenue isn't shared between parts.

The problem was, they had no non-Qt strategy. Symbian was dying and horribly fragmented and they didn't really have anything else.

(We ended up shipping a webapp which was another kind of disaster on their phones).

That document literally says that high quality option is the default.

Yes, you toggle it once and that's it. It also moves with backups so new devices don't need that step.

I dunno, I was a mobile developer at that time and moved from Symbian to Android/iOS and I didn't have a feeling Nokia engineering leads had any idea what they're doing either.

They tried to persuade us to use Qt to write apps (as alternative to iOS)... and they haven't shipped a single phone with Qt available as toolkit. They told us they might ship an update for N95 and perhaps one other model to pre install the library. At the time when they had literally hundreds of models.

When we finally put an app on their store, they failed to approve it in 6 months (!). Apparently because we chose the whole Europe as launch target so each country's Nokia office had to approve it separately. Silly us.

Afterwards we moved to Android (1.5, with 1.6 coming) and iPhoneOS.

You are heard. But what's your point?

The support for that was added to Android 14 in 2023: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features#req...

F-Droid took until now to use those APIs.

The designers of your software and their bosses disagree though, default widgets don't provide "branding" and allow the poor designers to express themselves.

Non-targeted ads have supported full industries for centuries. Cut the bullcrap.

And?

It's not - GDPR does that and it could even be much stricter still and we'd be fine.

On the other hand, I see a lot of HackerNewsers and European geeks utterly angry at laws that forbid (blanket) recording of public places and GDPR which controls what the videos can be used for.

Every EU topic here is filled with people wishing for its destruction and dismantling of such privacy protecting laws.

So why would they breakup Android away from Google (essentially killing the product as a whole due to lack of funding from Play) instead of separating the Ad business?

The only personal insult to everyone here is such blatant lying and rewriting of history. And it's telling about the bottom barrel culture of the internet that you're angrier about having someone called out as a liar they are instead of actual lies.

We were there and we didn't install Chrome via some made up toolbar installer, but because it was significantly better than what Mozilla and Internet Explorer offered.

This is complete nonsense, it's a post hoc copium where you're trying to dishonestly rewrite history from your personal hatered.

Chrome was better than competition pretty much all its lifetime and there's plenty of historic articles to prove it, no matter how much your emotions refuse to accept the history.

The marked used all the different apps available from both OEMs and on Play Store.

Don't be a prick.

Start with Apple which actually has a monopoly on mobile devices in USA and let's go from there then.

You do care about the market and aren't just angry because a corp doesn't listen to your orders, right? RIGHT?

Wonder what will be first, the year of Linux desktop or the year of Apple AAA gaming ;P

Been hearing both for the same time.

What community contributions? Linux is mostly corporately developed with Google being one of the major contributors.

Google also fully maintains the ART VM running on Android - despite Oracle, the owner and developer of Java - famously wanting a piece of it.

What community contributions are you talking about there? Where does this myth come from?

No, this isn't what gaslighting is or means.

EU was very clear that closing down the OS (Apple) is how they avoid fines with their latest rulings. They punished Google for open sourcing the OS and left Apple get away free with explicit explanation that closed OS doesn't need to adhere to same rules.

So yeah, don't expect EU to defend you here.

Why do you so desperately want to use their software then?

This whole topic is basically people demanding that Google continues giving them their code for free for their operating system.

If it's really such a cancer, why whine and demand the continued work then?

Most of it is one liner config changes too, not much of actual code.

There's plenty of password managers available that keep the backup for you in multiple ways.