Comment by rollcat

> the issue is with your bank then.

What next? Change jobs? Ride a bicycle? Move to a less oppressive country? Buy land and grow your own food? We're trapped into a vortex of *multi-trillion-dollar* global corporations wedging themselves into our lives and clawing away our freedoms, and we're supposed to *vote with our money*?

> the fact mobile hardware is restrictive is a problem caused by hardware manufacturers.

The manufacturers are complicit because the alternative is to be ousted. Every "alternative mobile OS" that tried to directly compete with Android/iOS got crushed.

Google now wants indisputable dictatorship over Android. Manufacturers can try creating alt-stores but you know exactly where it ends.