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Buying Android phone is increasingly just the entry fee for Google’s AI ecosystem.

The direction of travel is clear: Google is pushing AI harder and harder to redefine its ecosystem and bring new, powerful features to users. Android’s core OS remains free, but Google increasingly appears to view it less as a product and more as a delivery mechanism for its AI services. As those services become more central to the modern smartphone experience, many of the platform’s most ambitious features are also becoming subscription products.

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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 64 points 2 days ago

What I hope is that they lose Android to the anti trust lawsuit they're currently in

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's in the US, they just buy Trump something nice and they'll be let to be a monopoly. What needs to happen is for the EU to grow balls and stand up to US monopolies, by stripping any copyright, patent, or trademark protections of the offending companies.

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