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Why Android is terrible
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- It used Java (Dalvik VM) for super low resource devices + violated many Oracle
patents
- There was no trust in the user at all, customizations were fairly limited
- Instead of complying with the Linux kernel standards and sending patches they
forked it and used a completely different standard lib (bionic)
- It reinvented many technologies like X11 (surfaceflinger, pixelflinger, etc)
- It used the Linux kernel but broke hardware compatibility with Linux kernels
- Dubbed as open source, but still had locked down bootloaders and hardware
firmware
- Versioning was terrible; many many devices are stuck on ancient, abandoned
Android versions
- Google spying on users through various means
- Did not even allow you to remove vendor supplied garbage apps
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