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You can use an Apple phone without using a lot of Apple services and contributing a lot to a cloud profile of you. Given how many apps on the Android ecosystem
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
You can use an Apple phone without using a lot of Apple services and contributing a lot to a cloud profile of you. Given how many apps on the Android ecosystem depend on Play Services to function, it's nearly impossible to do this with Android.
I have a Brave Heart Edition PinePhone, and I'm hoping to switch to a real Linux phone soon, but for now, carrying an iPhone as a pretty basic phone is still a big privacy improvement.
- ajayyy 7y agoMicroG
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoMicroG still sends all of your data to Google! The only thing MicroG is doing is making the Google API client code on your phone open source. But it's not really protecting you from sending your data to Google.
- geekgonecrazy 7y agoI'm planning to get a PinePhone to play with. I think has a ways to come. But i'm really excited that an affordable phone like this can land in the hands of more developers to work on mobile OS's.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoYeah, it's really neat. I got the iPhone 11 because I need something reliable for now for work purposes, but my hope is to switch to my PinePhone when I feel it is ready.