Google Just Lied to Every Android User
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Android was supposed to be the open alternative to Apple's locked-down iPhone. That was the whole promise: your phone, your rules. But starting September 202...

Google moves to lock down the Android operating system, effectively stealing features away from millions of existing users.

  • skrlet13@feddit.cl
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    1 month ago

    Most end users won’t notice bc their manufacturers don’t update their devices anyway :(

    Until they renew their devices (which they don’t renew as much as you think)

  • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    I’ve moved from Android to CyanogenMod, then Lineage OS, and now Graphene OS. I have zero interest in a proprietary, locked down platform.

    If they really want me to use a Linux tablet, I will.

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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      3 months ago

      I’d love to put Lineage or Graphene on my phone, but neither one supports it. I think these OS fall prey to the “losing the hardware lottery” problem that Linux has, a term coined by @[email protected]. So imagine a world where we do get Linux on a phone, how easy it would be to lose that lottery.

      • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        I have never lost the hardware lottery, by virtue of not playing it. I buy my hardware to support the OS I run, not the other way round.

        • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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          3 months ago

          A little holier than thou don’t you think? Like I’ve got existing hardware and I’m leaving Windows. If (for example) Bazzite doesn’t work on my hardware, you think I should go out and buy brand new hardware to run Bazzite? Or maybe find some way to extend the lifetime of the hardware I have?

          I mean you even admit yourself that you moved from one Android OS to another. You bought a new phone every time you went from Cyano to Lineage to Graphene?

          • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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            3 months ago

            I’m assuming people are buying a new system. If you have legacy hardware, that’s a crapshoot. If you’re a gamer and are moving to Linux that can become difficult, due to your special requirements. Good luck with your migration.

            I am buying new hardware when the old one breaks or becomes unusable. My LOS Poco X3 Pro from end 2021 has a bad case of ghost touch, so I bought a new Pixel 7a end 2024 for GOS. My LOS Galaxy Tab S5e from mid-2022 refurbished is somehat usable, but my main driver since mid-2025 is a Pixel tablet with GOS.

            These are reasonably long lifecycles, and I try to buy refurbished when possible.