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That strategy will last ~15 minutes until Google is doing the same thing. Then what? I would argue that what Google is doing already is way more privacy-compro
by blairbeckwith 5y ago
That strategy will last ~15 minutes until Google is doing the same thing.
Then what? I would argue that what Google is doing already is way more privacy-compromising than this.
- hirundo 5y agoThat's a great argument for a Linux phone or de-googled Android build.
- megous 5y agoThen don't use Google products either (or don't use for photography). Seems obvious. "Dumb" phones and "dumb" cameras still exist.
- blairbeckwith 5y agoThat is not practical for many people who wish to be a part of society anymore. See: rollout of virtual vaccine passports, etc.
- jjcon 5y agoGoogle couldn’t do it, not effectively anyway because android vendors and variants are decentralised. They could do it for the pixels but that represents less thats half a percent of the market - not to mention that everyone on a pixel could just move to lineageOS if they didn’t like it. That freedom and decentralisation doesn’t exist on Apple (at least yet, maybe the DOJ or congress will regulate them).
- shuckles 5y agoThere’s nothing OS specific here. Google Photos could ship this on any Android distribution, and they have a billion users.