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I love selfhosting/flashing as much as the next person, but why do you believe going AOSP would be the next step away from iOS? Someone moving of iOS should ju
by MrDresden 3y ago
I love selfhosting/flashing as much as the next person, but why do you believe going AOSP would be the next step away from iOS?
Someone moving of iOS should just pick up a Nokia device with a stock standard Android OS. It will serve them fine without all the hassle of flashing.
If they want a higher end device with stock Android, go for a Pixel.
- niutech 3y agoBecause it's replacing one closed OS for another closed OS. AOSP is open source and unlike stock Android it doesn't have a bunch of preinstalled spying apps from Google/Samsung/you-name-it which you cannot easily uninstall. Plus Nokia is no more: https://www.gizchina.com/2024/02/01/mobile-phone-brand-transition-hmd-global-nokia/ https://www.gizchina.com/2024/02/01/mobile-phone-brand-trans...
- MrDresden 3y agoA common user can not be expected to go through with flashing an Android device. A technical user, sure. But a technical user could also simply go and disable much of the offending apps via `adb` effectively removing them (without uninstalling them) from the device. This is a much less drastic move than flashing a device. And contrary to belief, Google is not monitoring everything that happens on the device. Let's give the aluminum hat a bit of a rest here.
- niutech 3y agoAs for Google and monitoring, see this study: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf