Comment by bigyabai
5 days ago
> Imagine your ISP having total control over your desktop computer. Or killing a website, or program, because the ISP doesn't like it.
It's not very hard to imagine? Most people don't expect that level of control anymore; their desktop just updates with whatever corporate slopware is pushed out seasonally. Websites come-and-go. It's not a hugely motivating rally-cry for average person.
> We need to kill Android. And from the ashes, make a new platform that works for us, and not for a corporation's profits and anti-competition.
Android is the best-working part of that equation. Microsoft supported Android apps on Windows Phone. Jolla supports Android apps on Sailfish OS. Linux supports Android apps in Waydroid. You don't have to "kill" Android as a runtime or smartphone OS; just force Google to compete with 3rd party ROMs.
> just force Google to
How exactly are you going to force Google to do something?
They way we usually do, by restricting their access to EU markets unless they comply and/or fine them, and/or threats about nationalizing the "EU Google".
What is the US going to do, apply more tariffs?
You can't regulate your way to a better Google. If the corporation's sole purpose is to slowly suck you dry, adding terms about the size of the straw is irrelevant. Android was created to control you and make money off you for Google. As long as it exists, they'll continue to find ways to do so, because it's the whole business model.