Comment by chmod775
4 years ago
> As you are well aware, the market is not very competitive and there aren't dozens of vendors to pick from.
Where I come from a dozen means 12. Even just LineageOS has support for phones from 30 different vendors.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
And LineageOS is far from the only way to start taking ownership of a device. And let's be real here: Pretty much anything will beat Apple on that particular spectrum.
LineageOS is not enough to replace IOS or 'Google Android' completely, these days. Without google services you won't be able to use many banking or booking apps.
Many people are not prepared to take this convenience hit: when you switch, you empirically lose some of the functionality, while the privacy advantage is 'intangible' until you personally become a victim of the lack of it (which is absolutely worth avoiding, even if still very rare)