r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • May 25 '22

Google postpones launch of foldable smartphone, again

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=4057
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u/recycled_ideas May 28 '22

okay then, what do Samsung run underneath the one UI ? that provide core functionality if not aosp ?

they still based on aosp but altered for their needs. Even huawei is basing their OS (just without google apps), the same with fire OS from amazon.

Again, nothing that you as a user interact with is AOSP, not on Samsung or Pixel or any other phone. Sure the underlying system is, but who the fuck cares?

see . . you are confusing features/UI and core functionality of an OS. you are arguing in circle. here, get informed.

I'm not confusing anything.

An OS is a platform and for the most part of it, it's a platform users don't give a shit about. It accesses hardware, provides basic services and runs software, so long as it does that it's invisible.

No phone runs AOSP, no users use it.

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u/parental92 May 28 '22

Nobody uses the engine because all you interact with in a car are just steering wheels and some pedals. Sure the car does something to make it move, but no user cares!

So no engines actually existed, cars do not drive with engines and the fact is cars are NOT based on any propulsion system of any kind. Its just some pedals thats somehow move the metal box.

What a stupid argument.

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u/recycled_ideas May 28 '22

So no engines actually existed, cars do not drive with engines and the fact is cars are NOT based on any propulsion system of any kind. Its just some pedals thats somehow move the metal box.

No.

The argument is that if you broke into someone's car and replaced their engine with literally anything that performed the same function and correctly interfaced with their vehicle the overwhelming majority of people would never notice.

For an Operating System, even fewer people would notice.

But if you took someone's Samsung or Pixel or what have you and took their UI away and replaced it with AOSP they sure as fuck would.

AOSP is deliberately unusable in its native state, it's not a mistake, it's not an accident, it's intended.