• Hydroel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I think it’s even simpler than that: they want a share of Google’s data, and more control about what ads they can show to their customers constantly. Their hardware platforms are okayish and sold for a quite low price, but they monetize it on ads.

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      11 months ago

      Amazon’s Fire devices already have this, they don’t use Android with Google, they use the fully open source version. They can collect any data they want already