Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks agowhy wouldn’t I just get an iPhone
Jumping from the frying pan straight into the fire.
I’m sure we all have a different perception, but my current view is that Google sells you a phone that they need to push ads and harvest vast amounts of data from you in order to make money on the phone, and Apple somehow needs to do this less.
Which company do you feel takes privacy more seriously? From what I understand, Google primarily makes their money from advertising.
I’ve never owned an iPhone, but I 100% agree with you. The reason I choose android is because of the freedom to use my phone how i want (for the most part).
Apple is a walled garden, but their security is good, they’re not an advertising company in the same way google is and don’t have as much of an incentive to harvest and sell your data. If android is going to be a walled garden like iOS, I trust apple more than i do google and If in the future I can’t find a phone that has all the features i want anyway, then i may as well just get an iPhone.
Agreed across all points. Android’s advantages after the changes go through with side loading will be choice of manufacturer and the still-deeply-flawed-but-far-superior implementation of a work profile in Android. I love being able to press one button and have all of my containerized work apps shut off. It is also quite nice that a remote wipe from M365 could be limited to the work app container rather than the entire phone.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Exactly this. Just left iOS and got a pixel8a and flashed grapheneos on it. Apple is doing the same shit. GOS might be a pain in the ass sometimes but I feel much better knowing that Tim Apple isn’t reading my texts and monitoring my bank apps so they can target me with ads.
doxxx@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s some Grade A crack you’re smoking there, my dude.
MSids@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can’t do Graphene because of work. I am an IT manager, and one of our guys did graphene and had a host of issues with the work apps. I really can’t risk any issues.
fodor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
You are talking about your work phone, not your personal phone, right? … Right?
MSids@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
One personal phone. They give me a stipend. I did the two-phone game years ago and I’ll never do it again. It’s fine.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is the unfortunate hell I am in too. I’m debating an iPhone and I fucking hate Apple with a passion.
MSids@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It is a tough choice, both companies are gigantic and kind of scumbags. Funny story though, I was also in the market for a new computer recently as my 10 year old Windows 10 tower was really starting to show its age. My frustrations with Windows had also peaked.
I have been doing a more photo and video editing for fun, and I ended up taking a leap. I got an M4 Pro Mac mini. Mac OS is definitively better (IMO) for home use than Windows, and the M series processors are like wizardry. I liked it so much that shortly after I bought a used M2 Max MacBook Pro off of a coworker.
Coincidentally, a few months after I got my Macs LTT also switched over first to Snapdragon-based Windows laptops and later to Macs for a 30-day challenge and they ended up staying on the Macs.
I am an IT manager and I don’t think I would ever want to deploy Macs at scale in my workplace, though it is the only computer I look forward to using now.
nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It sucks that at this point both systems suck. Apple is not great but at least it’s been pretty stable. If Apple allowed side loading that would be the dream.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I have GrapheneOS for work, everything works fine. The only app that I had trouble with was the Westjet app, it needs a certain capatibily setting turned on and basically wants full access to the phone. Ironically the banking app was fine LOL