When shit like this happens, companies should be required by law to provide an easy way to use your device with another provider, or they should provide root access so the FOSS community has the opportunity to provide an alternative backend. Google is a big company. If they want to keep customers, they can do it by providing them value rather than locking them in.
All companies should be required to provide firmware source code and driver source code with any electronics they sell. They’re selling a product, I get to decide how to use it.
When shit like this happens, companies should be required by law to provide an easy way to use your device with another provider, or they should provide root access so the FOSS community has the opportunity to provide an alternative backend. Google is a big company. If they want to keep customers, they can do it by providing them value rather than locking them in.
All companies should be required to provide firmware source code and driver source code with any electronics they sell. They’re selling a product, I get to decide how to use it.