• FreedomAdvocate
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    2 hours ago

    Because Google have been wanting to be closed source for years, which is why nearly all their new features since they released the Pixel have been PixelOS exclusive and not in AOSP.

    They don’t care about killing custom roms, that’s just a side effect of them going closed source for their Phone.

    • rmrf@lemmy.ml
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      55 minutes ago

      What do you think the benefit of closing sourcing their software is if not to stifle competition?