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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Like I said in another comment, unless they get tens of millions of actual unique-not-spam responses they will not even consider reconsidering. People aren’t going to de-google in any great numbers from this, because most of the people this will affect are already de-googled.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Rather than degoogling telling them you will go to Apple and opt for apple services is likely the more powerful response, since that is what the regular person is more likely to do. If degoogled is used they’ll likely dismiss it assuming it is just one of those niche nerds. But an exodus to Apple is a threat that is more realistic.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But that makes no sense - they’ll go to someone who is even more restrictive in side loading?

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      • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The ones that don’t sideloading obviously won’t care. But the ones that do are going to have little incentive to stick around if that was the main selling point for them, and the devs for non Google play apps leave because they don’t want to hand over info to Google.

        At that point why not go to Apple if Android no longer delivers the type of sideloading experience they desire? Apple is more polished, has longer support, battery life, and peripherals.

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