throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoWhat if Android didn't exist? (Or Google decided to develop a closed source OS?) What would this alt-timeline's privacy smartphone OSes looked like? (Since Android Forks wouldn't exist.)message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareWhat if Android didn't exist? (Or Google decided to develop a closed source OS?) What would this alt-timeline's privacy smartphone OSes looked like? (Since Android Forks wouldn't exist.)throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoAndroid existed before Google acquired it. So there’s an interesting wrinkle there. But, PalmOS existed before Android and iOS. And Blackberry. Sailfish may have also, I just don’t recall.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 days agoAndroid started out as a framework for blackberry. So probably we’d all be using blackberries.
Android existed before Google acquired it. So there’s an interesting wrinkle there.
But, PalmOS existed before Android and iOS. And Blackberry. Sailfish may have also, I just don’t recall.
Android started out as a framework for blackberry. So probably we’d all be using blackberries.