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I think the biggest impact we can have, besides getting government regulation involved, is building the market share of an alternative.
by goda90 1y ago
I think the biggest impact we can have, besides getting government regulation involved, is building the market share of an alternative.
- elric 1y agoThat, and staying away from anything that funnels money to Google.
- rchaud 1y agoYes. A decision like this creates the impetus to move to alternatives like Jolla OS that have an Android-compatible layer. 20 years in, the so-called "smartphone" duopoly have jointly converged towards a "dumb terminal" strategy, where almost nothing can be done without cloud-based authentication from a centralized third party. And this was the case prior to the AI horse manure they're baking into the OS. I use the Fossify forks of Simple Mobile Tools apps (Gallery, File Manager, Calculator) because these can be installed via APK files and just be left alone. My Google Calculator app on the other hand seems to want to download new updates every single month.
- monegator 1y agoAnd what alternative would that be? iOS? hah. Hardware and vendor lock in. AOSP / Graphene, or the equivalent of linux on a smartphone would be a better chance, but first and foremost you need hardware support. Something is happening like eos, pinephone and the like but we are a long, long way toward that goal.