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I used to make Android phones and I stopped using our own product after having been a hardcore Android user from the beginning. Had the first Android device tha

I used to make Android phones and I stopped using our own product after having been a hardcore Android user from the beginning. Had the first Android device that came out, rooted and rooted and rooted after that and built lots of apps for various companies until I got into building the actual OS. The reason I stopped using our Android product at that time was because of the spyware. I even built a nice backend to host, browse and manage the so called telemetry we collected. Now I dont use Android because Google and I simply don't trust any Android vendor. I miss an alternative to iPhone...

rhn_mk1 8y ago
There are some alternatives already. They may not be 100% painless, but they generally don't have the spyware problem. From the top of my head: - Jolla https://jolla.com/ https://jolla.com/ only shares the drivers with Android - Replicant https://www.replicant.us/ https://www.replicant.us/ only shares AOSP with Android, making this community project reputable in my eyes - Librem 5 https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ will share nothing with Android when it comes The two issues with those is lesser hardware and app selection, but this is what happens to the third contender in the current situation.