Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Matrix (Element), Signal, Telegram. Other stuff probably requires Google services which I don’t use on the tablet. Phone has Google services, but I don’t really use it for messaging other than Signal.

    • icegladiator@lemy.lol
      0·
      30 days ago

      Have you tried Briar, SimpleX or Session? Also do you get the same quality of mobile service on Graphene as you do on the default OS?