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>>kaladi+(OP)
Can you even use the Play store on AOSP? I was interested in trying it (I don't use Android currently) but from what I gathered it seemed like a bit of a fraud (on Google's part) because it was fundamentally gimped.

>>DidYaW+y6
AOSP does not include GMS or the Play Store.

>it seemed like a bit of a fraud (on Google's part) because it was fundamentally gimped.

AOSP is designed to be customized by vendors before they ship a device with it. Development of AOSP goes towards the shared OS pieces that actually get used and not towards things which would just get swapped out. Which is why the stock user space has not had much investment.

>>charci+z7
I'm calling it a fraud in terms of Android's initial promise to be the great "open source" OS that would free us all from vendor and telco tyranny.

As we all know, it has done nothing of the sort.