Comment by dvh
4 months ago
Wrong approach. Vote with your wallet instead. My next mobile phone will not have OS from Google (not from Apple).
4 months ago
Wrong approach. Vote with your wallet instead. My next mobile phone will not have OS from Google (not from Apple).
Something like 7 iOS phones are sold every second of the day and there are even more Android phones sold. The number of people who care about this issue is far too few for any kind of boycott to be noticed by the handset makers. The only option is to appeal to Google's sense of what's right.
In the time it took you to read this comment, 200 phones were sold.
Highly technically knowledgeable people are more influential in this sphere than the average consumer. If developers hate your device and love your competitor, that's a real problem.
It's not clear to me what the net outcome is.
I've mostly owned Android devices but for my family I've always recommended iOS devices because they are more locked down.
I would if there was a viable mobile phone OS I could switch to. iOS isn't any better. Linux phones, sadly, aren't very practical for daily use. AOSP based projects also have many limitations, and are still dependent on Google.
It's emphatically not "the wrong approach," and it's exceedingly weird when everyone makes things like this an "either/or."
Do BOTH, when possible.
What phone are you considering? Sailfish still doesn't seem very successful and mobile Linux barely boots on anything that performs better than a fifteen year old budget device.
I'm kind of hoping Qualcomm's open sourcing work will also affect the ability to run mainline Linux on Android devices, but it's looking like a Linux OS that covers the bare basics seems to be a decade away.
Fairphone 6 with /e/OS for example.
Oh yes, let me an individual out vote a trillion dollar corporation. That will surely work this time!
I'm sorry but people that think this way tend to also think having money is some morality signal and not one of a massive personality defect (greed).
Good luck with that.
No luck needed.
Linux based phones are starting to become viable as daily drivers. [0] They are even coming with VM Android in case an application is needed that does not have a Linux equivalent.
I am interested in how Google's gatekeeper tactics are going to affect Android like platforms such as /e/os and GrapheneOS. [1]
[0] http://furilabs.com/
[1] https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
> > Good luck with that.
> No luck needed. Linux based phones are starting to become viable as daily drivers.
Then please tell me, which non-Android Linux-based phone can I buy here in Brazil (one of the first places where Android would have these new restrictions)? I'd love to know (not sarcasm, I'm being sincere). Keep in mind that only phones with ANATEL certification can be imported, non-certified phones will be stopped by customs and sent back.
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Works for me.