Android: Difference between revisions

Android is a smartphone operating system developed by Google and supported by a very loose collective of other companies called Open Handset Alliance. Although it is technically open source (in the sense that the basic source is available), it is tightly controlled by Google and turned into one of the most potent weapons of surveillance capitalism. Google uses Android to actively erode user's privacy in new and innovative ways, and yet our modern life is nigh impossible with this one side of the smartphone duopoly coin.<br>

Yet, ''some'' things can be done to improve things, which is what this page seeks to achieve.<br>

== Main takeaway ==

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* Android is broken up into several different manufacturer versions, each of which have some variation in the feature set.