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• nexusband@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is. And I personally commend Google for this - they are pretty much the last manufacturer to truly give your the freedom, without crippling the device to hell and back. Sony and Samsung cripple the cameras when you unlock the boot loaded, nearly all Chinese manufacturers don’t even give you the choice, Xiaomi has a “wait list”.

  Say what you want about Google - they still aren’t as terrible as others.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Say what you want about Google - they still aren’t as terrible as others

    Hard to score them 1 to 1. Apple for example is horrendous at controlling “your” system. Always have been. Tried to help a family member upgrade their MacBook SSD and it’s been an absolutely horrendous experience and I gave up and told her I couldn’t help her because the process of simply running an OS update was so ridiculously convoluted, not to mention the fact that you even need to update it at all to do so. But their devices are fairly private.

    Google is just the complete opposite and empowers global surveillance.

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    • 108sbavert@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How did you determine their devices are “fairly private”? Actually curious.

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    • nexusband@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Google is just the complete opposite and empowers global surveillance.

      I disagree with that. Yes, they enable it, but you can turn (nearly) everything off in the settings and with a few ground rules things are quite good.

      Take TikTok, Meta or something like that…you can’t turn off most of the data harvesting and profiling.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, but one brand with a tiny market share.

  If its the law, every android device would have to have this option.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fact is that the Android maker itself makes appropriate devices widely available. If consumers don’t pick them up, it’s their own fault. Everything aside from Pixel and Galaxy is crap anyways.

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• kylian0087@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For a pixel their is a much better option named Graphene OS :)

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not the point, the point is that options already exist.

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    • kylian0087@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know. options are always good. i just thought of mentioning it because GOS is very relevant for the pixels phones specifically

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