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I Just use the factory apps and have nothing else installed, this way no one mines anything out of me.
by clef 13y ago
I Just use the factory apps and have nothing else installed, this way no one mines anything out of me.
- qq66 13y agoExcept Google mining all your data (if you use Android)
- clef 13y agoWell then I guess Apple knows I come here often!
- Yetanfou 13y agoThat would be strange, given that the only Google-produced code on my Android-running phone comes from AOSP and has had plenty of eyes (and network sniffers, and firewalls, etc) on it to weed out any such mining. If you run Google applications (on Android or on iOS or elsewhere) you send data to Google. If you don't want to send data to Google, don't run Google applications. The same goes for Apple applications which phone home to Apple, Microsoft applications to Microsoft, etc. Android works fine without Google applications ('gapps'). It does not need the Google Services Framework to survive. You don't need the (horribly named) 'play store'. Nor Gmail, Google Maps, Google+, etc. This is one of the big differences between Android and the other bigger players in this field - you have a choice.
- galaktor 13y agoby which you also miss out on most of the things that make a smartphone worth buying in the first place...
- Nursie 13y agoThat depends heavily on the user. I love my smartphone (now have a Note 3, last phone was a Note) but large-screen portable web browsing and built-in GPS/Navigation are the draw for me, not hundreds of apps. I have few installed.
- galaktor 13y agoby which you also miss out on most of the things that make a smartphone worth buying in the first place...