Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

• doxxx@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

  That’s some Grade A crack you’re smoking there, my dude.

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• MSids@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are talking about your work phone, not your personal phone, right? … Right?

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    • MSids@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the unfortunate hell I am in too. I’m debating an iPhone and I fucking hate Apple with a passion.

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    • MSids@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Personally I’ll never purchase a Mac.

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    • nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah but its also a very proprietary ecosystem in a walled-garden style presentation. I don’t want an appliance. I want a computer.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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