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Maybe you are Ok with paying for every app or making do with open sources ones that do not benefit from ad revenue stream. Plus, you don't need maps, pay or cas
by cat_plus_plus 4y ago
Maybe you are Ok with paying for every app or making do with open sources ones that do not benefit from ad revenue stream. Plus, you don't need maps, pay or cast support. But many other people like this features and if they don't, isn't it great that there are working AOSP builds for Pixel 6 Pro so that they can roll their own ROMs on top of that? No need to hack like for Windows 11.
- hedora 4y agoWhy would maps (get lat/long from GPS chip when navigating / searching), cast and pay need to burn battery when the phone is idle? (Also, third party implementations of maps, such as organic maps and here we go can install and run fine without impacting battery life when they are not running.) The answer is that the actually-useful features are bundled with mandatory malware that does need to run in the background in order to implement 24/7 surveillance. That bundling clearly violates US antitrust law. Also, I suspect most people buying > $1000 phones would be willing to pay 10’s of dollars for lifetime licenses for maps, pay and cast (which is roughly what they would cost as standalone products), especially if they were privacy preserving, and doubled the phone’s battery life.
- petodo 4y agomaps work perfectly fine on my no gapps phone, so does Whatsapp or signal