All tech news reads like marketing.

Which is still good.

Nothing prevents anyone from forking it.

You have no idea how open source works.

Nothing prevents you or anyone else from forking Android. It is not owned by anyone.

Android is open source. Google does not own it.

I didn’t say toppling Android. Why on earth would that be a good thing? It’s breaking Google’s control over Android, which is great.

Huawei’s appstore took off in a lot countries. That happened only thanks to the US government.

inconceivable!

it’s useful. I use it.

😡

Because websites are optimized for dummies who can’t copy paste.

Ironically, the US government probably managed to break Google’s monopoly on Android by trying to kill Huawei.

check at ArcaneOverflow

https://hugelolcdn.com/i/878813.jpg

This is how the rest of the industry worked for years. Nvidia was just stuck in the past century.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

American producers are shipping NSA spyware as well. If this is a concern (which it should be), best thing is to install Linux on it yourself.

Lenovo makes great computers. They have amazing price-to-performance ratios.

This is such a no-brainer. Every government in the world should be doing this.