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Nice! And they will probably differentiate from the competition by allowing GPL applications and sideloading, and having a total control for your privacy and no tracking, right?

Right?

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In the beginning? Sure. Later? Well, you know, security and all, think of the kids!

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And the grannies!

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Yeah and maybe Bezos will finally allow his workers to have bathroom breaks

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Check out these great special offers in GPL applications and sideloading!

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Probably will just be more like their own flavor of Android where they lock down the OS and insert all kinds of malware.

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I know there’s sarcasm here, but the article did state an sdk will be available so apps need ported.

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Lol

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Cool. Another OS to avoid.

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This is the best description for everyone

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Agreed. If it was any company at all except Amazon there would be hope but come on. We’ve all seen what they did to the fire sticks

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If it was any company at all except Amazon there would be hope

You won’t be saying that in a couple months when Facebook makes their own announcement.

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Yeah fair, not ANY company

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They want to harvest the data, without Google’s control, and give none to Google.

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That can be easily done with AOSP, to my knowledge there’s no Google stuff in there. Which is exactly what they’re using right now

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There still is some google stuff in there, like for example phoning google servers to check internet connectivity among other stuff.

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Yes, but those minor traces are easy enough to remove, especially if you don’t care about being “ceritified” by Google (i.e. are not planning to run the Google services).

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Hahahaha cool, Linux with ads and tracking and all the spyware you could ever want.

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So just like android ?

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Minus the sandboxing and security improvements, apparently

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And no sideloading

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I wonder if it’s going to be as terrible as their Fire OS.

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