Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ok this needs harsh pushback, because phones are affordable, computers are not. There needs to be a massive project dealing with making phones platform agnostic.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Have you shopped for those items recently? You have 200 buck computers and 2000 buck phones.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yep but also 200 buck phones.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Yeah, definitely. My point is that phones are not inherently more affordable than computers, like it was 20 years ago.
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also I live in a 3rd-world country
obvs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So does Google.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
ahh give em a bit, most of the first world ones are trying to head that way ;)
cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My current phone, a Pixel 7a, cost me around 350€ (let’s say it’s roughly the same in $). There is definitely cheaper options. And most of these options will give you a decent phone.
A $200 computer will bring you to basic office stuff and playing facebook games.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
A 350€ computer will be capable of similar computing power as a 350€ phone, plus the form factorc comfort. I struggle to do basic office stuff on my high end phone, for instance.