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Tech Talk: What is part of Android and what comes from Google?
Even the question can be confusing.
It's simple once you understand how it works, but it can be tough to do so because Google's relationship with Android isn't like Microsoft's with Windows or Apple's with iOS. (Image credit: Source: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central)You also wouldn't have access to the code because Google's apps are not open-source. Part of the reason Android (without Google's stuff inside) is more secure than any other commercially available operating system, including Apple's iOS, is that people are constantly looking through that code, trying to break and exploit it.
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