• Zak@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    25% went to carriers

    2008 was different. It’s amazing how much power carriers had at the time.

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      10 months ago

      Or when it was actually possible to make an app for Android using open source tools?

      Is it not now? There are lots of actively-maintained apps in F-Droid, and as I understand it anything in F-Droid must at least be buildable with open source tools.

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        10 months ago

        Android SDK source code is available, in theory and in theory you can build yourself. In practice binaries provided by Google come with restricting licence how you can use them while source is so scattered around weird control systems that noone knows if it’s actually complete source and possible to use.

        There was a project to provide FOSS builds of the SDK, but is unmaintained. https://gitlab.com/android-rebuilds/auto Debian also has android-sdk in it’s repos, but 23 is the max API level now.

        I don’t know how F-Droid build apps today, it seems like a big problem.

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          10 months ago

          I’m not sure, but F-Droid does state:

          We cannot build apps requiring Non-Free build tools, including Oracle’s JDK or some pre-release toolchains.

          They’ve been pretty consistent about their requirement that everything be open source.

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      10 months ago

      That’s the thing with big mega corps. They could lower prices, make some products free, give more to app makers in this case - and it won’t hurt a single person in their firm.

      But they won’t. They just want a higher green number, that’s so high it’s not possible to spend in a lifetime.

      And you get nothing, because they won’t even pay their taxes.