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of course google wants every developers id the second they get into bed with a fascist federal government
I’m bothered that big companies, especially tech right now, no longer see their customers as people they need to please to stay in business, but instead as something they’ll inconvenience and squeeze as much as they can possibly get away with.
They all got to where they are making, at one point, amazing products. Now? Fuck making windows useful, we can throw ads and AI at you every place we can think of. Fuck all of the parts of Android that made it stand out, we tell you what to install. You don’t want all of your data scraped and sold? Fuck you, there’s 3 of us and we’re all doing it. In fact we’ll never stop finding new ways to harvest data.
Phones have basically stagnated entirely in the US. Sure you get moderately better chipsets, but what else? AI? I haven’t had a phone struggle with anything in… maybe 10 years. Instead features that people didn’t use enough just get removed.
Are we already nostalgic for analog oligarchy?
Time to back to the analog world and short wave radios.
I feel like this is the new normal cycle of every software company. Once they become a leader, it’s never enough. It replicates the rise of billionaires. Just as the billionaires being rich beyond anything they and all of their succeeding generations could ever spend is not enough, being the industry leader and producing an amazing product that people want is somehow not enough. It always turns to control and power.
I came here specifically to ask about alternatives to Android now that google is becoming too abusive in the relationship.
Fuck them. I have a guitar a pocket watch and a wind uo radio. Everything have is a nicety.
As shitty as M$ is, it would have been nice to see Windows phone become moderately successful and be a third primary mobile os.
I’d prefer that firefox os had caught on and turned into a big player today
okay well goodbye Google, then
what’s the alternative here?
Yeah that’s the issue, when it comes to mobile, anyway
!remindme 2 years
Does !remindme work on Lemmy?
The year of the Linux mobile is coming.
As long as companies can keep pumping shitty, almost entirely closed off android phones that cost less than 200 dollars for consumers (selling hardware at a loss while making up for data harvesting and sale), “linux mobile” will be just another meme along with “year of the linux desktop”
is this legit?
I want to believe, I really do. But I fear that the crypto apps people have grown dependent on will make it harder than the desktop battle. And IDK but I seem to recall every year since at least 2001 being proclaimed to be the year of the Linux desktop.
I rely on my banking apps (plural), governmental email app, government authentificator app and the governmental LMS app for public schools to make my everyday function. And the last time I tried just a custom ROM, those apps refused to run.
A phone that can’t do NFC payment, banking and authenticator work is not a phone. It’s a pile of shit that’s little more than a toy for children.
Nothing wrong with toys, but they arnt useable products worth any amount of real money.
It’s nice, and good to see more of a push. However, I think kill switches for at least microphone and camera should be the new default. It’s absolutely ridiculous to walk around with an internet connected mic and a camera that looks at your face whenever you look at your phone. Personally, I’ll never carry a phone around anymore that doesn’t have mics and cameras desoldered or there’s a kill switch. For the back camera a cover with a slide is fine, but doesn’t really work with the front part.
I just put stickers on the selfie camera.
I would carry around a flip phone if my work didn’t require Passkeys generated exclusively from MS Authenticator.
IS THAT A FUCKING HEADPHONE JACK!?
Let’s go 🔥🔥🔥
Standards are low huh?
Well all the major brands are below that…
Sign me the fuck up!
The specs look quite decent, and it even has an SD card slot. I really would love to get away from android.
Neat! And a removable battery.
Debian too! Always liked me some Debian, super stable.
I’m not giving up my off the market pixel dungeon mods.
Shattered pixel dungeon? Or is there another version?
Several others that have been taken out of the store completely or that never got in, like unbreakable pixel dungeon is the old regular pixel dungeon without item degradation.
now it’s just a race for the giant conglomerates to make the worst decisions for consumers
Yep. There’s no such thing as competition any more.
Tech companies are just gas stations across the street from each other.
Your computer no longer “computes”, its just a barebones terminal to access a “virtual pc” in the cloud.
Good news, you don’t need to pay $1000 for a good laptop, all you need is this $50 windows machine that only runs a client that streams a live feed from MS Headquarters
Bad news, its a subscription, stop paying and you lose all files.
Wait a minute did you type a “Eat The Rich” document, sorry can’t have that, violates ToS, deleted.
Fahrenheit 451 x 1984
894,784 degrees
Is this only google phones or all of android?
Anything that “officially” has the google play store.
Sucks. Thanks.
Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to live in this damn Orwellian society that is coming?
Look up Microsoft in the early 90s and how we all got through it.
tbf, we all got through it by just going to other platforms. now there’s almost no other platforms to go to because big tech either pressures them until they fold, or sell to them and become part of their umbrella as some shill company or they remain independent but still use big tech software to run their backend, so your info ends up going to them anyway.
i think in the future, everyone will be forced into surveillance by default and those who don’t will have to either pay dearly for privacy or learn how to program their own security. checkout project gideon that’s already getting pitched to the united states government and other governments from israel. it’s literally that show “person of interest” plus
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Pretty sure they’re talking about antitrust lol
That’s just it. You’re not supposed to live. You’re supposed to be controlled.
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Always has been
The EU’s been breathing down Apple’s neck for them trying to do similar shit, so i find the timing kinda weird.
Plus they’d need to force-update their spyware first, i wonder how many versions of android they’re willing to go back.Yet Apple has been able to profit from their walled garden for decades now. Doesn’t that set a precedent that it’s okay? I honestly don’t blame Google for going this route—it’s inaction from our policymakers that has created the space for abuse.
The EU has been targeting Apple for years now for not allowing sideloading (the whole Fortnite drama) and ruled that no, Apple can’t bar users from installing shit.
Apple requires developers to go through a Notarization process, much in the same way that Google intends to introduce restrictions to sideloading on Android. How is this different?
It isn’t, now that apple is using that to block installation of third party apps I’m expecting the EU to once again step in.
When our policymakers take direction from capitalists, it’s ok to blame to capitalists.
Interesting perspective. So the suggestion is to redirect our blame away from our elected representatives or even from electing representatives that run on a campaign that aligns with our priorities.
There’s more than enough blame to go around. It’s not a zero sum game.
Yeah I was going to say it’s better to blame the policy makers but who the fuck cares? Neither side of that coin does.
I think the update is already installed, just waiting for the kill switch.
