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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I like it. I've never been a fan of the proprietary Google services and everything relying on their APIs, push notifications and everything using their servers. Breaking that and fragmenting the ecosystem means developers have to come up with other solutions, maybe standardize protocols and not just rely on Google's services because they're easy to use.

Currently contactless payment only properly works with Google as a middleman. Every proprietary app displays locations in Google Maps, there is no choice to not send your location to Google. Nearly every messenger routes push notifications over Google's servers. There is no text to speech for other languages than English. No car play etc. Some proprietary apps rely on Firebase because it's easy to use. Some don't even work at all without Google. It's more the source code of the operating system is open and permissively licensed, but they took care the higher level functions that are super important to apps and the user all rely on them.