Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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    19 days ago

    I know, and that’s exactly my point. They used to be in the user space, now they are in the system partition. They CHOSE to do this.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah. That’s a good point. I don’t know why anyone would put any frequently updated app in squashfs.

      I guess you can use the app right after you factory reset even if you don’t have much data which might be something? Are updates smaller since they’re just deltas?