Google's location sharing settings are getting ready to break out of Google Maps
  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The title is misleading. Article says, currently location sharing is a Google Maps feature and it will become a Google Play Services feature, not an Android feature.

    Google Play Services is NOT the only way you can use Android.

    Please correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t used Google Maps nor Play Services for years. MicroG is good enough for me.

    • baatliwala@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Technically misleading but realistically the only population it’ll affect are the Chinese who I believe don’t have GMS. Non GMS users outside China probably aren’t even a blip on their radar.

      Also, how would location sharing work without a server anyway? And I very much doubt that Google would open source the server side implementation coz that’s how companies roll nowadays…