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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For starters, you can degoogle Android, you can’t deapple iOS.

You can replace the manufacturer android with a clean, free software and secure Android ROM, like GrapheneOS. iOS is a black box, fully proprietary and controlled by Apple.

You can install apps from third parties on Android, like F-Droid. On iOS every app must be approved by Apple.

You can’t use an iPhone without an Apple account, you can use Android without a Google account.

Android has multiple profiles support, which comes handy for completely isolating apps from the rest of your phone.

There’s much, much more. That’s just what came to my mind right now.

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“deapple iOS”

Why would I want to make a secure device less secure tho

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- sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  stop consuming Apple marketing.
  
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I like phone and do not use google. Not much needs to be marketed to me lawl
    
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How can I download apps (not side load) from a store (play store for example) without having a Google account?

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- sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You need a Google account just for the Play Store, given that it’s a Google product.
  
  You can download apps from other stores just fine: install F-Droid for example, or Amazon which has their own app repository too, and you’ll be able to download and install apps from there. (I don’t recommend using Amazon, it’s just an example)
  
  For apps on the Play Store, you can use Aurora Store which proxies the Google Store and does not require a Google account.
  
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  - tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And you can prove that the binaries I receive are the binaries from the developer?
    
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    sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    F-Droid has reproducible builds, so definitely yes. You can even check the exact code used to build every app on F-Droid.
    
    The rest of stores, it depends. Every store has their own policy and the only one I recommend is using F-Droid or downloading directly from the devs’ website or Github repo. There’s an app to automate this process for updates too, so it’s actually a quite good method.
    
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