Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day

ushmel@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Solrac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From one semi-closed garden to a fully closed gaden? Might as well try Lineage or e/OS

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    gonna buy a couple pigeons and some thumb drives.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you can plug a thumb drive into a pidgeon.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think you can plug a thumb drive into a pidgeon.

        This my guy right here:

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  • ushmel@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haven’t tried with a custom for a while but I’ve heard good things about lineage

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    • Solrac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lineage is the base for a grand majority of custom roms

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was there ever? If you’re gonna pay iPhone prices but get weaker hardware and they sell your personal data, why not just get an iPhone? Custom launcher? Better keyboard? Certainly valid reasons, but I just don’t see the value.

  Way I see it, my iPhone is a pocket version of my Mac. A computer sold as an actual computer, not a vector to sweep up my personal data and sell it to the highest bidder.

  Never got down with Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or any of that shit. Yes, I know, I’m the weird one. And I’m okay with that.

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Way I see it, my iPhone is a pocket version of my Mac.

    The thing is, you can install software from whatever source you like on your Mac. That’s not true of your iPhone - even in the EU and Japan where they’ve been forced to open up a little, apps can only be installed with Apple’s permission.

    Macs were completely open in that regard until recently. You could install apps from wherever you want. Now, Mac apps have to be notarized by Apple or installing them requires use of the command line. That’s obnoxious, but the user still has the final say, unlike the iPhone.

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    • Blade9732@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love my Mac. I can install all kinds of cool software, as my Mac has been upgraded to only run Linux Mint.😉

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “You can’t install whatever software you want” is a good argument, but I haven’t found anything I want to install on my iPhone that I can’t. At one point it was emulators, but Apple overturned that a few years ago. I have an emulator on my iPhone, and it’s one of the best (Delta; if you say RetroArch is better, I don’t disagree, but I could get that, too). But I almost never play it. That’s entirely my choice. My use case scenario doesn’t need me installing any apps that aren’t in the App Store.

      Not that I don’t have a problem with the App Store. It’s mostly trash. They don’t highlight good apps, they highlight profitable apps, which means subscriptions. App Store is virtually 100% trash, and its recommendations are 100% trash.

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      • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I haven’t found anything I want to install on my iPhone that I can’t. At one point it was emulators

        So you have found something you wanted to install on your iPhone that you couldn’t, but Apple has decided to allow it for now. I think it’s pretty obvious how this is a problem.

        Of course you’re not going to find apps that exist that you can’t install because Apple says so. People won’t bother making them if they can only be distributed to the tiny handful of users with jailbroken devices. Of course it comes up on occasion when Apple withdraws permission, with ICEBlock being the recent socially important case.

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  • ushmel@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t even used a custom keyboard or launcher since Pixels became a thing.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t even used a custom keyboard [since the Pixel]

      Why would you? Gboard is already the best.

      or launcher

      That’s a weird choice. I get it, before 2016 a lot of Android forks were ad-ridden trash. But, Nova Prime was a thing long before the Pixel, and it makes it easy to export/import settings across devices.

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• postnataldrip@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly many won’t care, but for those that do it removes one of the key differentiators. Plus it’s kind of hard to trust a company that has had such a wild change in values - Apple have at least been consistent.

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  • dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tim Cook is a billionaire. I trust him no more than any other billionaire.

    Lest anyone forgets, he’s put money into Trumps inauguration fund, and if I remember correctly, some other things as well.

    I’ll keep grabbing refurbished, carrier unlocked androids from Backmarket, and load GrapheneOS on em.

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    • nmrb@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      BackMarket is the way to go. I won’t buy tech from anywhere else. No more money to big tech companies who only care about the bottom line no matter the cost.

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      • dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Absolutely the way to go! I haven’t bought a new phone since 2015. When I can afford it, I’ll grab a laptop to replace my 7 year old HP envy.

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• dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what I’m thinking, been on pretty much straight Google since my Samsung Galaxy Nexus, moto g 2013 Google edition, then all pixels, but I’ve got / love my MacBook Pro and having an iPhone would probably complement that a bit.

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