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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by JairajDevadiga@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

Originally published on The Lever, but that one asks you to sign up.

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[–] Flukas88@feddit.it 35 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Sadly iOS is not much better

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But is it even slightly better? It's debatable. Both are completely awful, but I guess iOS is just terrible in different ways.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Up until about two weeks ago I could use wallet on my rooted pixel with lineage and play integrity fix.

Some recent change on their end and it doesn't work at all anymore. I guess they don't want to know what I'm buying.

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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Can I get a rundown of the few non-flagship phonemakers that are currently out there? I have heard of The Nothing Phone. Are there more companies that put together Androids to operate within the US?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

The big problem with anything not Google or Samsung is, as it's always been, software support. You get 2 or maybe 3 years of updates and then the device is trash. So you can save a buck on the short term but it will cost you more in the long run and you'll have shitty devices all the way along anyway.

You can buy a 2 year old Pixel for $2-300 and it will last you another 4-5 years (unless Google remotely nukes your battery).

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

I find myself using desktop Linux more than my mobile device, even on the couch with the family. Monitors on arms that can swing out of the way ftw. No cute advice for keyboards though. We have wireless ones around but I still use my wired Deck Legend on my lap. It’s an old mechanical keyboard that’s built like a tank, with the PCB literally mounted to a sheet of metal that is mounted inside the housing, lol.

It’s almost a shame, because smart phones are still absolutely amazing to me as far as the amount of scientific and technical advancement that can fit in the palm of your hand. But I look forward to the open options various parties are working on.

[–] SeeFerns@programming.dev 27 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I really want to try a pinephone or something with Ubuntu touch. It’s likely not daily driver ready but I’m still curious at how far along it is.

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