@PanArab@yogthos 20M units in China is too small to count as a rounding error.
When one Chinese phone company hired an American CEO he talked in interviews about how experimentally selling 50M units of a test prototype suggested it might have potential.
Right, but there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with AOSP. The key is not being reliant on any Google service. Base Android works fine as an operating system.
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@PanArab @yogthos 20M units in China is too small to count as a rounding error.
When one Chinese phone company hired an American CEO he talked in interviews about how experimentally selling 50M units of a test prototype suggested it might have potential.
In 10 months though and practically limited to the Chinese market? I think it is still an impressive figure.
Compare that with both Android and the iPhone which had global availability and took until 2010 to reach the same milestone.
Also worth noting that other companies have their own domestic operating systems as well. For example, Xiaomi made HyperOS.
HyperOS seems to be where HarmonyOS was pre NEXT. Heavily based on AOSP with Google Play Services, yet can also be had with other kernels.
Right, but there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with AOSP. The key is not being reliant on any Google service. Base Android works fine as an operating system.