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Apple has the same thing on the Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&hl=en_CA&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps
by patmcc 4y ago
Apple has the same thing on the Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&hl=en_CA&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.move... - so really seems only fair.
- adamrezich 4y agonow each walled garden has an escape hatch into each other
- cowtools 4y agoIs android a walled garden? There are open-source distributions of Android like CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/ https://calyxos.org/), LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/ https://lineageos.org/), GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/ https://grapheneos.org/)
- _ea1k 4y agoIts a walled garden with a relatively accessible door. And the garden's pretty nice too, nice enough that most don't leave for the perilous world outside of it. Unfortunately, some of the security related moves lately have also made living outside of it a little more difficult.
- highwaylights 4y agoAndroid isn’t the walled garden. The Play Store is.
- enragedcacti 4y agoMore generally its Google Play Services as a whole and how it gobbles up increasingly large parts of OS-level functionality into closed source and EULA guarded code
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThey are neutered by threats from Google. Lineage had to remove the ability to spoof permissions to appease their overlord.
- Dig1t 4y agoWow I didn't know that, do you have a link?
- charcircuit 4y ago>Is android a walled garden? I would say that devices that are Play Protect certified are a part of a walled garden.
- scarface74 4y agoNo company could sell an “Android” phone in the US in any significant number that didn’t come with Google Play Services.