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A major hardware and software change is happening in my life too, Google, to excise you from every facet of my life.
I was just getting home picking up my new second hand Pixel 3a to install PostmarketOS on. Wish me luck :)
Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google's influence. It's the best option we have.
What about fairphone? Don’t they run a Ubuntu option?
Anyone else thinking this is an anti-piracy measure? Google made similar moves to change web browsers to make aure you see ads. I'm sure they're not happy people keep blocking their ads on android. Ads are their core business model.
Thats the impression that I get.
P. S. I heard somewhere Amazon is moving their fire devices off of android to combat piracy as well.
This isn’t about piracy. This is about forcing you to use their Play Store. It sounds like exactly the same thing but it’s not.
Ok, so I might as well buy an iPhone then because this is the only thing android did better lmao. Fuck you google.
Use GrapheneOS. It's degoogled android. Currently you have to install it yourself on a Pixel phone but AFAIK Motorola is working on releasing device with Graphene pre installed
I hate Mussolini, i'll side with that Hitler guy
Do they actually make it better or does their marketing say so?
considering, EU aside, that you can't load software on an iphone outside of the App Store, I'd say yes.
TempleOS phone, when?
Hold my lithium
Are there people who are angry out of principle/ideologically but who don't do sideloading etc? Because, I'd like to think that if you are angry enough at this, then you have the incentive and the will to root you phone (making it an unsupported device and making it NOT locked for sideloading) and go on with your life. I wish Google died like... Yesterday. Don't get me wrong. Am I missing something?
You make it sound like rooting is a simple opt-in. It is not. It is not possible on every phone, requires technical expertise, risks bricking your device, you will likely loose firmware update support, various apps (like banking apps) will stop working. It is a tough choice.
You're right. At the very least, users shouldn't be forced to make this choice. It's absurd how little authority we have over devices we have paid for with our hard earned money. :(
not all phones can be rooted nowadays, and when ot can it has other disadvantages too that the current method of avoiding play store does not have
I agree. People that lack the technical expertise or rooting compatible devices shouldn't be forced to even consider this. Once you have paid for a device, you should be allowed to do with it whatever the hell you want, without Google or other big tech shoving unsolicited policies down your throat.
Love that some megacorp can just make decisions like this that affects billions of people.
Really just feeling the fucking freedom. I hate everything.
The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it's his restaurant. Our problem is that it's a duopoly and there's nowhere else to go.
The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.
Real quick.
Just imagine you order a plate of pasta. You're only two bites in, and it's DELICIOUS.
Then here comes chef. While making full eye contact, he tips your plate and dumps all of that pasta in the trash.
Chef proceeds to take a giant wet shit onto the plate. He brings a new set of silverware and a fresh napkin right before your server comes back with the check.
You insist that you didn't order a giant wet shit, but they won't take it off the bill.
Let's stop pretending this is an inevitable oopsie. This shit is egregious.
Don't overstretch my analogy like that. How about this:
Google has standardized The Restaurant. The kitchens all have the same tools and ingredients and are open to anyone. Seating and billing is standardized, and you can easily order and pay at your table, and the food is delivered straight to you via pneumatic tubes and nicely packaged. The food might be expensive or cheap, tasty or revolting, but the experience is always the same.
There are a lot of hobby cooks that like to cook in the Google restaurants. If you want to eat their food, you might have to pick it up straight at the kitchen, or nicely ask the hobby waiters. The food is good and free, so some people tip the cooks or waiters directly. The cooks have been there for years and whipping up nice creations - mostly for free, beacause the ingredients and tools were free, and they really like to cook.
Now Google introduced a new rule: everyone has to use their billing and pneumatic delivery system, citing improved food safety. The hobby cooks and waiters are infuriated, and even some of their customers, and they demand that everyone can still come to the kitchen or the waiters. But Google just says: look, my restaurant, my rules. If you don't like it go make your own.
Daddy Googs won't be happy until it's a walled garden just like iOS
Android was an open standard and platform, a LONG time ago. Then Google did a rug pull with all new features of android requiring 100% of their services to function.
No, it wasn't ever. It always belonged to Google who benevolently open sourced parts of it and retains control.
Safetynet and PlayIntegrity are under Google's control. The PlayStore is Google's. All of the APIs are Google's! Hardware blobs are closed and belong to the manufacturer.
Just because some of the stuff shows up on GitHub doesn't make it an open platform.
Ah yes the invisible hand will fix it
After all it's the invisible hand's job
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There is Huawei Harmony OS.
Chinese, etc, and I don't know about licenses, but it's mostly compatible with Android apps. I have a Huawei tablet, with awesome hardware, but de googled from the get go. I mainly use it as a media consumption device, though. No mail, banks, etc.
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