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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

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  1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
    Android has been so thoroughly disappointing through the years. Started as a great open free form alternative to iOS, to becoming the very thing it sought to combat.
    1. josteink · · focus · HN ↗
      If Android wants to be the inferior not-open-source mobile OS, why would I not just buy an iPhone instead then?

      It’s closed too, sure, but at least it’s more consistent.

      1. pimeys · · focus · HN ↗
        Android has free and open artificial pancreas that is still easy to install and keeps us with complex type 1 diabetes alive.

        Google may just want to kill us and Apple don't even let this kind of software exist without massive hurdles...

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