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fphyesterday at 10:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Surely you mean phone operating system landscape? There are plenty of phone manufacturers.


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kube-systemtoday at 12:58 AM

Sadly I did not. They’re all

> controlled either directly or indirectly by two companies

While many manufacturers physically make Android phones they all functionally play by Google’s rules as a contractual condition to get proprietary gApps.

Amazon even tried to pull off an Android fork without gApps but failed.

The only third option is Huawei’s HarmonyOS if you live in China.