I stupidly changed over from IPhone over a year ago when I saw their CEO sucking Trump’s dick. I was ignorant, I thought Samsung was better. I thought it was still somewhat expandable but holy shit was I in for a rude awakening. I got in a 2 year contract for the Galaxy s25 and have regretted it ever since. The company isn’t more ethical than Apple and what a horrible product compared to the iPhone. I have a long list of everything that’s shitty about this phone but I’m just wondering… Does anyone actually like them or do people just buy them out of ignorance like me, the price difference or what? I had the iPhone Xs before this and although older, was a much superior product.
Oh well… Live and learn. 6 months to go of this Android bullshit. 😂 What a shit phone.
Unfun fact: Google will soon force all developers to identify themselves to Google before running their app; this applies to f-droid.
I think modded android will be able to get around it, at least for now.
Hopefully the more Google tightens its grasp, the more users will slip between their fingers.
I feel like they will run into some issues in the EU with that.
Oh yeah, I am livid about that ughh.
The future is inevitably FOSS. Governments & corporations like to keep their secrets too much to let US-centric companies keep backdoors into their every system.
Yes but part of the selling point a lot of the time does perversely come back to US-centric companies providing the leaders of Governments and Corporations a Backdoor-As-A-Service product to force upon those lower down in the pecking order.
There’s a story about President GW Bush trying to endear himself to Angela Merkel by showing her he knew she talked to on her personal phone the night before. It did not go over well.
The only possible way Google can block installing apps from F-Droid (and other app stores) is to have software on the phone that scans apps as they are being installed.
I doubt if modded OSs will ever have that software. If the devs of custom roms are too lazy to remove the junk they will not have many users.
I imagine there are all sorts of ways they can try to tighten their grip; I’m not going to feel really safe until I’m on an open source OS.
Name one that can work on a degoogled OS.