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Sameer Samat, president of Android ecosystem at Google, asked a TechRadar journalist why they were using an Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook:

I asked because we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Not really as there is no Apple equivalent to AOSP

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Incorrect. MacOS and iOS both started out as Darwin, the Mach microkernel, and FreeBSD. 25 or so years ago, Apple had open repos and package managers to install standard Unix tools, and the core of the OS even used things like cron to schedule tasks. You could even configure MacOS to not launch the GUI and run it command-line only. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Over time, Apple slowly turned everything into Libraries, Extensions, and Frameworks, and slowly closed-source everything application-by-application. The same way Google is doing with Android.

And if you missed the memo, there is no Google equivalent to AOSP. They killed it in March, because they are doing the exact same thing.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Google can't kill AOSP as it is under the GPL. They will always have to release the source code. Even if a lot of the apps have been abandoned the core system will still be GPL. I don't see them changing that any time soon as it would mean a total rewrite of the OS from scratch which would be insane.

Android also is designed to run on lots of different hardware unlike Apple. I don't really see the comparison.