Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?

Jeff,

Well, Google didn't invent Android, but if you look at

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Thanks for that.

Effectively, unless you're going to suggest that the 20-years old
pre-Google Android is what Graphene and others developed their OS
from, it can /only/ have come from stripping down Google's Android.

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And that's what  concerns me - who knows what "innocent" code they've
included that nobody else knows about?

Thats where my "I applied logic there" came from.

But, if all is as you described it looks like the creators of GrapheneOS had
little choice than to strip Googles android.    I always thought that a
basic Android was out there too.

I can only hope that Google didn't put its stuff into Androids Linux kernel
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On an unrelated point, I was surprised to see that GrapheneOS uses
automatic updates only. There's no choice - their OS is updated whether
you want it or not. That's not what I would have expected.

I was thinking of turning off automatic updating*, and would also be
negativily surprised not being able to find it.

* didn't yet look for it, as I consider that phone to be a tool, not a
computer on which I do, to me, important stuff (read: hobby programming).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser