Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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• GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  at least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.

  The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it's hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.

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  • halva@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That ensures a baseline of freedom

    that’s not how this works… nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down

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    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down

      Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn't prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn't and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it's infinitely better than Apple's walled garden.

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      • Giooschi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But I just need to find one that doesn’t and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash.

        Unfortunately sooner or later Play Integrity will make this unfeasible in practice.

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