I would love to see a separation of Android and Chrome from Google, and from each other.
Separating Android might finally make it so that the default launcher (desktop and app menu) app no longer wastes a pile of space with a Google search bar. And perhaps it may become possible to log into a Google account in one app without making that account available to every Google app.
And there are still quite a few things that attempt to force the use of Chrome, rather than working with the default browser.
The other day, I ran into an app whose "add to XYZ" intent refused to use the default browser, and specifically directed towards Chrome. (The URL it was actually sending Chrome to worked perfectly fine in Firefox.)
> And there are still quite a few things that attempt to force the use of Chrome, rather than working with the default browser.
Are there? I've never had anything installed but Firefox, and before that some other Chrome fork I can't remember the name of. Never had a problem even once.
I said this in another thread but I need someone to explain to me how this sufficiently weakens Google's dominance on search.
> Notably, the DOJ will reportedly not push for Google to sell off Android, sources said, which was considered "a more severe option." Instead, the DOJ apparently wants Google to "uncouple its Android smartphone operating system from its other products, including search and its Google Play mobile app store, which are now sold as a bundle," sources said.
This is something I am much more interested in. Making it so not every app is required to integrate with Google Play for basic functionality will make building Android forks easier.
Separating Android might finally make it so that the default launcher (desktop and app menu) app no longer wastes a pile of space with a Google search bar. And perhaps it may become possible to log into a Google account in one app without making that account available to every Google app.
And there are still quite a few things that attempt to force the use of Chrome, rather than working with the default browser.
The other day, I ran into an app whose "add to XYZ" intent refused to use the default browser, and specifically directed towards Chrome. (The URL it was actually sending Chrome to worked perfectly fine in Firefox.)