I don’t use a foldable phone… But you can’t put a tablet into your pocket. It’s meant to be the dimensions of a phone, just much thicker, so it fits into your pocket, while letting you fold it out to have double the screen size. For all the issues they have, that’s a very reasonable and somewhat appealing feature.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining! I saw “makes space” as what’s happening right now, since Android does let you install alternatives for all those, including third party app stores, but it does go farther than that.
I don’t think anything you said makes it not free, as long as you can fork it. The same can be said about most FOSS, since somebody, usually the creator, is in control of the repository.
That’s the point of FOSS - your repository isn’t becoming a democracy by virtue of using a permissive license, but it means somebody could outcompete you with a fork and effectively take over as the dominant project.
But… Aren’t all of those things still very much dominant?
I think that’s something Apple does, actually, where apps give explanations for every permission they ask for. No idea about allowing them later or if they state if they’re necessary though.