Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

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 capacity over the last decade. The Android mascot and logo, representing the Google-developed mobile operating system, appear at its pavilion during the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2025. (Joan Cros / Nur…