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Duolingo Used iPhone's Dynamic Island to Display Ads, Violating Apple Design Guidelines
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So a Linux phone then? Because Google’s putting up walls real quick. And selling your data out from under you.
Sure, if there’s one available that can function as a daily driver and is user-repairable when I need a new phone. Or if more devices get support for alternate privacy-focused OS options, a used phone could be a real possibility.
But I might not bother with a smartphone at all if there aren’t better choices than now. I have a host of other things I can use to browse the internet and do most stuff I presently do on this tiny screen, and I’ve cut way way back from how much I even use this. Only issue would be GPS, but old devices work for that just as well as newer ones, as long as you download the maps.
Narrator: There isn’t.
Yeah, that’s why I said if there is one when I’m ready to get a new phone. That’s likely several years away, because I don’t plan to buy more stuff if I don’t have to, so one might exist by then. I know there’s been some progress on that front, just not a ton.