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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s not good enough. They’re just going to keep lightly pushing against the bad publicity until everything not controlled by Google on your phone goes away.

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks. No phone competition in the US also sucks. Overpriced Samsung or a Google phone, while companies Like Red Magic have fan and liquid cooled phones with huge batteries, more ram, and more storage, for less than a grand being sold around the rest of the world outside the US.

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DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks.

That goes for MS and Apple on the desktop too, and allegedly Google is trying to enter that space as well for the umpteenth time.

At least as far as PCs are concerned, they’re still unlocked at the bootloader level, despite MS’ attempts to lock that down, and there’s nothing stopping you from installing Linux or BSD on your PC still. Mobile devices outside a handful which aren’t locked down, unfortunately don’t have that luxury.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. I’m running Linux on all but one of my machines. You at least have the option with most any PC. There’s a very quickly dwindling option to do the same with phones.
  
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daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oneplus had great success but then enshittified. Raised prices to match Samsung and Google, outsourced support to some place that didn’t sound like they were even in the same dimension as any English speakers and took away their ability to help customers even by accident and finally quality of their phones went to shit.

They could’ve sucked the Chinese government subsidy tit for another few years and would’ve established themselves as legit competition, but that would only delay inevitable enshittification by a few years.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’re a descent phone right now with their OnePlus 15. Huge battery, good and bright screen, top of the line processing and 16GB of the fastest ram you can get in a phone, and less than $1,000.
  
  My issues with it are that their potential unlocking and rooting is a bit up in the air, and that they only offer up to a 512GB with no SD card.
  
  I’d buy a damned Red Magic 11 pro if they didn’t block root and supported band 71.
  
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  - daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah, I’m not doing back to OP. I hate to say it, but If you’re going to use android, nothing beats pixels. Not even close.
    
    If GrapheneOS manages to actually work with a decent hardware maker to get a phone to the market, I’ll get that next, but only if Android auto and banking apps work. Phone’s useless to me without those.
    
    Only reason I’d give those up is if I can get another Linux phone as polished as Nokia N9. Still the best phone I’ve ever owned.
    
    Not a popular opinion, but if those two options are unavailable, I’d rather switch to iPhone than use a non pixel android.
    
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    ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s looking like pixel may be planning on locking down root access as well, soon. Really, pixel has never done anything very great. No SD card, ok, screen, ok apu, pretty good cameras, meh battery, and meh storage and ram. Never anything special. Sony phones had potential but they’re always priced high and their software support sucks. I wish LG had kept making phones
    
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baconsunday@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Stop it. You’re reminding me why I want to move my family out of the US. Its not just phones, everything is a facade here.

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