Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

A traditional operating system (OS) such as Windows, macOS and Linux facilitates user interaction with hardware through a graphical user interface and manages tasks like memory allocation and process ...

Technology and innovation have become more important than ever for the advancement of mobility. And there may be no automaker pushing the limits of this premise further than Mercedes-Benz with its ...

The /e/OS Foundation has been offering a de-Googled version of Android since 2018, with an emphasis on privacy and security. Now developers have introduced the biggest update in years. Among other ...

Mexico's National Antitrust Commission has ordered Google to end restrictive contracts around its Android operating system ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to make Meta Horizon OS, the operating system that powers its mixed reality headsets, available to third-party device makers. Microsoft Corp., Lenovo Group ...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a deep old cove -- the first thing you'll notice after installing it over Leopard is that little seems to have changed. This school of thought underlies almost every other ...

Zac has been writing about Android as a hobby since he was a teenager and fulfilled his ambition of doing so professionally when he joined Android Police as a Reviewer in 2020. Zac specializes in ...