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The software in the Android ecosystem is getting so shit that even die hards for open source like myself are considering switching. And I'm not talking about sw
by GauntletWizard 4y ago
The software in the Android ecosystem is getting so shit that even die hards for open source like myself are considering switching. And I'm not talking about switching to a PinePhone or something like that; I'm a firm believer in open source, but can handle Open Core, and Android used to sit at the perfect intersection of "Corporate support" and "Hackable", but I'm considering an Apple phone. My Pixel 5 crashes multiple times a day and I just use it for slack and e-mail. Certainly, part of that is the half-baked "Work Profiles" feature, which was fundamentally broken from the beginning of implementation.
Edit: Pixel, not Nexus.
- fooker 4y ago>Nexus 5 Maybe use something more recent?
- GauntletWizard 4y agoPixel! Pixel 5. Geez. Their poor naming schemes might be part of the problem.
- dolni 4y agoI am fairly open source die hard, at least for my personal stuff. I used exclusively Android stuff for a long time for the reasons you cited: it was a good compromise between corporate support and hackable. I bought an iPhone for the first time about six months back. I am not happy about having to do it. There's plenty of stuff I don't like about the phone. But I think it has been a net positive. I used to really be rooting for Google. They have fallen a long way.
- zen_1 4y agoI'd recommend checking out GrapheneOS, I'm using a pixel 5a (so worse specs than the 5) with none of the issues you're describing.