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But it was never about the performance or security, it was always about the applications. I can probably reduce the number of apps that I truly need and many ca

But it was never about the performance or security, it was always about the applications. I can probably reduce the number of apps that I truly need and many can be replaced by open source alternatives, but I'd still have one or two that won't available outside the App Store or Play Store. I'm more attached to those apps than I am the operating system running on my phone, but that still doesn't help me escape the duopoly because large corporations, governments and banks enable Google and Apple.

fabrice_d 3y ago
Can you list these apps?
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago
  I'm not OP, but: 1. There's an app I use to operate and pay for the laundry machine in the basement of my apartment building. 2. There's an app I use during fire drills--I'm a a teacher--to confirm all my students made it out of the building. 3. There's an app I use to see the real-time location of the private bus which picks me up in the morning. (None of these apps have equivalents on the web.) The connecting thread is that I didn't really choose to use these services, someone else chose for me.
- LesZedCB 3y ago
  pagerduty/opsgenie is the one that got me
- mrweasel 3y ago
  MobilePay (Danish payment system) is probably the main one I have left. The entire family is on either iMessage or Snapshot, but I could probably do with SMS or push a few of them to Signal, so not a huge lose there. Everything else I have managed to move to my computer or replace with alternatives, but the payment one, it's basically the only way to transfer money to friends and family, that isn't a major hassle.
MostlyStable 3y ago
Curious about what apps you really can't replace. I think the vast majority of my usage could be replicated in browser. I had thought that maybe my only one would be the 2-factor authentication that my bank uses, but I just checked and they have a hardware token I could get if it didn't work on linux. Almost everything else I do would work in browser (although admittedly the reddit mobile browser experience is pretty terrible. Then again, me spending less time on reddit wouldn't be the worst thing in the world)
fsflover 3y ago
You can run Android apps on GNU/Linux phones with Waydroid. Works for me, but depends on your bank.
hooooooray 3y ago
[Quoting:] "But it was never about the performance or security, some things won't be available outside the App Store or Play Store, because large corporations, governments and banks enable Google and Apple." OT: so when you are going to rent an appartment you have to do it via an app like airbnb (in german: there is a "vivawest-app", and you can not visit the appartment physicaly before you sign a (minimum 3 month) contract (to rent from them), no -you'd have to use the app for a "sightseeing" (cos "migrants" and um you wont know or hear about otherwise))? There's once was a saying (in german): "lass dich nicht ver-äpp-eln" (-; regards...
- edoceo 3y ago
  DE => EN == "don't let anyone kid you"

fabrice_d 3y ago

Can you list these apps?

Wowfunhappy 3y ago
I'm not OP, but: 1. There's an app I use to operate and pay for the laundry machine in the basement of my apartment building. 2. There's an app I use during fire drills--I'm a a teacher--to confirm all my students made it out of the building. 3. There's an app I use to see the real-time location of the private bus which picks me up in the morning. (None of these apps have equivalents on the web.) The connecting thread is that I didn't really choose to use these services, someone else chose for me.
LesZedCB 3y ago
pagerduty/opsgenie is the one that got me
mrweasel 3y ago
MobilePay (Danish payment system) is probably the main one I have left. The entire family is on either iMessage or Snapshot, but I could probably do with SMS or push a few of them to Signal, so not a huge lose there. Everything else I have managed to move to my computer or replace with alternatives, but the payment one, it's basically the only way to transfer money to friends and family, that isn't a major hassle.

MostlyStable 3y ago

Curious about what apps you really can't replace. I think the vast majority of my usage could be replicated in browser. I had thought that maybe my only one would be the 2-factor authentication that my bank uses, but I just checked and they have a hardware token I could get if it didn't work on linux. Almost everything else I do would work in browser (although admittedly the reddit mobile browser experience is pretty terrible. Then again, me spending less time on reddit wouldn't be the worst thing in the world)

fsflover 3y ago

You can run Android apps on GNU/Linux phones with Waydroid. Works for me, but depends on your bank.

hooooooray 3y ago

[Quoting:] "But it was never about the performance or security, some things won't be available outside the App Store or Play Store, because large corporations, governments and banks enable Google and Apple." OT: so when you are going to rent an appartment you have to do it via an app like airbnb (in german: there is a "vivawest-app", and you can not visit the appartment physicaly before you sign a (minimum 3 month) contract (to rent from them), no -you'd have to use the app for a "sightseeing" (cos "migrants" and um you wont know or hear about otherwise))? There's once was a saying (in german): "lass dich nicht ver-äpp-eln" (-; regards...

edoceo 3y ago
DE => EN == "don't let anyone kid you"