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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
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.
108sbavert@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
How did you determine their devices are “fairly private”? Actually curious.
nexusband@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.